HYDERABAD: Two individuals were detained by the Rachakonda cyber crime police for allegedly siphoning off Rs 3.68 lakh from the bank account of a tax guide by resorting to SIM swapping.
Complainant Saranga Sandhya's husband Deepak Saranga used to labored as a tax guide at Kukatpally and had died due to illness in 2018.
According to the police, Sandhya got here to grasp about the fraud handiest when she went to the bank to finish some criminal formalities and located unauthorised transactions from her husband's bank account.
During the investigation, police tracked the accused identified as Muthoju Satyanarayana (48), a tax guide and former colleague of Deepak and his associate, Perumalla Sri Durga Krishna Prasad (36), an employee with a personal firm.
"The accused, Satyanarayana being a close colleague of Deepak, got the copy of his identity proof and bought a new SIM card on Deepak's name. Later, he managed to change the mobile number linked to Deepak's bank account," said S Harinath, ACP cybercrime, Rachakonda.
The accused would get the SMS indicators and would switch money on-line using a new quantity to get the One-Time Password. He had been transferring money to various accounts for the past three months from Deepak's account.
Police arrested the duo and recovered the whole quantity from their possession and booked them for cheating and cheating by impersonation cases apart from relevant sections beneath the IT act.
Complainant Saranga Sandhya's husband Deepak Saranga used to labored as a tax guide at Kukatpally and had died due to illness in 2018.
According to the police, Sandhya got here to grasp about the fraud handiest when she went to the bank to finish some criminal formalities and located unauthorised transactions from her husband's bank account.
During the investigation, police tracked the accused identified as Muthoju Satyanarayana (48), a tax guide and former colleague of Deepak and his associate, Perumalla Sri Durga Krishna Prasad (36), an employee with a personal firm.
"The accused, Satyanarayana being a close colleague of Deepak, got the copy of his identity proof and bought a new SIM card on Deepak's name. Later, he managed to change the mobile number linked to Deepak's bank account," said S Harinath, ACP cybercrime, Rachakonda.
The accused would get the SMS indicators and would switch money on-line using a new quantity to get the One-Time Password. He had been transferring money to various accounts for the past three months from Deepak's account.
Police arrested the duo and recovered the whole quantity from their possession and booked them for cheating and cheating by impersonation cases apart from relevant sections beneath the IT act.
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