20-year-old BPO employee arrested for allowing online fraudster to use his bank account

Time of India

5 hours ago

Mumbai: The south cyber police on Monday arrested a 20-year-old BPO employee for allegedly allowing a fraudster to use his bank account to receive money from other cyber fraudsters.
The fraudsters had cheated a Mumbai court employee in a fake online share trading fraud of Rs 53 lakh. She had lodged an FIR on June 3.
The accused was caught in the western suburbs. "During the probe, we found that Rs 4.92 lakh was received in the arrested accused's account," said the police.
The 50-year-old complainant told the police that she first received a WhatsApp message from a person named Ishita Kapoor, who claimed that she was an assistant manager in a financial services company and convinced her to invest.
The complainant shared her Aadhar and bank details with her.
Kapoor added the complainant to a 'WhatsApp group, which had 100 members and four admins. The complainant was asked to download an app, BFSLMax. "In eight transactions, the gullible complainant sent Rs 53 lakh to six different bank accounts provided by the accused. When she tried to withdraw money, she failed. She communicated with Kapoor, who demanded that the complainant should subscribe to a fresh IPO.
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The complainant told her that she wanted her money back, to which Kapoor messaged her claiming she was a foreign national and that they were experts in duping Indians," said a police source.
This is when the complainant approached the police.
"The complainant took a Rs 30 lakh loan from an app-based financial company and invested it in buying the shares. She also took loans from friends and relatives and invested," said the source.
While probing the money trail, police arrested the BPO employee. He told police that his friend, a wanted accused in the case, came to him saying his mother was ill and that his relatives were sending money to him. The wanted accused also told him that his debit card was not working. He allegedly asked the BPO employee to give his bank account details. Once he took the details, he used them to receive the complainant's money and asked the arrested accused to withdraw it and give it to him.
A team led by senior inspector Nandkumar Gopale, inspector Kiran Jadhav, and sub-inspector Shweta Dhok is probing the case.