INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AHMEDABAD: A team of the cybercrime branch of city police on Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old man from Pune for the alleged theft of Rs 80
Gautam Mukherjee, who is from Ranchi in Jharkhand, works for a software analytics firm in Pune
According to investigators, Mukherjee, a BCA degree holder, had been working with a gang that was using the sim swap modus operandi fraud
for about two years.He is currently employed by the Pune firm as a floor executive and three of his accomplices are on the police radar
Cybercrime police said Mukherjee and his accomplices in May deactivated the simcard of a businessman, got a new one issued and withdrew Rs
Mukherjee transferred Rs 38 lakh to his own bank account which he later converted into US dollars
He transferred Rs 42 lakh to another account in a private bank
Cybercrime police had frozen Rs 50 lakh, which was returned to the complainant, said police officers
Investigators said Mukherjee and his associates were in cahoots with a gang of cybercriminals based in Nigeria
Mukherjee and his aides, who were dealing with employees of telecom service providers, then got his number and swapped the sim
They use this information to trick telecom companies into issuing duplicate sim cards
victim's bank accounts and get one-time passwords (OTP) to carry out transactions
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The accused, Gautam Mukherjee, who works for a software analytics firm, had been involved in this fraudulent activity for about two years
Three of his accomplices are also under investigation
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