Cyber crooks in Rajasthan gets fake SIMs for committing Fraud

The cyber criminals gets fake SIMs to commit fraud and it can be assessed from the fact that six cyber fraudsters arrested by the Rajasthan police last week were involved in selling nearly 1 lakh SIM cards bought illegally from Uttar Pradesh over the last three years.

Last year, in a series of investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Karnataka caught the impersonation of government officials’ Facebook accounts has caught a cyber-criminal gang based in Rajasthan. Four persons, who allegedly used multiple ways to siphon off crores of rupees by faking Aadhaar cards, have landed in custody.

According to the Jaipur Rural Police, these SIM cards were sold in bulk across the country without the necessary KYC procedures.

Mewat-Bharatpur-Alwar region become the hot bed for the cybercrime activities after the famous village Jamtara in Jharkhand , the gang has sold between 3,000 and 4,000 SIM cards.

According to Dharmendra Yadav, Additional SP Rural, the arrested criminals were part of a wider criminal network operating in the region. “They were using a variety of methods to obtain SIM cards in order to stay out of the police net,” Yadav said.

Explaining on the procedure to procure these SIM cards Yadav said, real client was duped by SIM card dealers who took all of the necessary information for issuing the card, including biometrics and Aadhaar card details.

After entering all of the details into the system, the dealers rejected the card, citing a system failure, a weak internet connection, or a technological glitch. The customer was then invited to return the next day. By the next day telecom dealer had obtained several SIM cards in the client’s name, which they had sold on the black market at a premium.

One SIM card is only used for one victim and then as soon money is withdrawn the SIM is destroyed. According to police, this is why, in the vast majority of cases, when the owner of a SIM card is tracked it always leads to an innocent person whose identity had been compromised.

The same type of racket is getting spread from Assam to Rajasthan and Uttarakhand to Karnataka.