FedEx fraud was exposed by the Coimbatore rural cybercrime police. While in New Delhi, a police squad confiscated computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices and detained a member of a FedEx fraud group.
On Sunday morning, the individual was taken to Coimbatore and placed under court prison on remand. According to a preliminary investigation, he was implicated in 11 more instances of identical deception in different states around the nation.
The individual who was detained was identified as 42-year-old Gopi Kumar from South Delhi’s Badarpur. Rithika, 25, daughter of Balakrishnan from Selakarichal near Sulur in the Coimbatore district, received a call on September 20, 2024, from an unidentified number, according to the Coimbatore rural cybercrime police.
She was told by a stranger posing as a FedEx courier service employee that a package had been scheduled using her identity as identification and that it included narcotics and other illicit substances. The stranger instructed her to make a video contact with Mumbai cybercrime police authorities via Skype.
During the Skype video chat, a fictitious police officer conversed with her and obtained her credentials and bank account information for verification. After the verification procedure, the phony officer promised to return the money to her bank account. Additionally, he threatened to conduct a digital arrest right away if she disobeyed his orders.
The woman deposited Rs 10 lakhs from her bank account to the accounts provided by the fictitious police officer because she was terrified of him. She then discovered that the cybercriminals had defrauded her. She filed a complaint online right away at www.cybercrime.gov.in, the national cybercrime reporting portal.
In accordance with provisions 66 D of the Information Technology Act and 318 (4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Act, the police filed a complaint against the cybercriminals. Sub-inspector Ananth of the cybercrime police and his colleagues examined and frozen the suspects’ bank accounts. Eleven further instances in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Maharashtra concerned the same accounts.
Gopi Kumar was detained a few days ago by a special squad headed by sub-inspector Marimuthu in New Delhi, and he was brought before a judicial magistrate court. The cyber fraudster was then sent to Coimbatore on Sunday after the police secured a prisoner transit warrant.
According to the police, Gopi Kumar was a member of the FedEx scam group and operated two businesses in New Delhi: Compact and Nihansh Corporation Private Limited. A police squad has been camped out in New Delhi in an attempt to apprehend the other suspects, while his three buddies were acting as the scam’s masterminds.
Two tablets, three keypad phones, seven debit cards, three check books, four hard drives, ten SIM cards, a laptop, a memory card, one seal, a pen drive, a passport, business cards, and letterhead were all taken from him by the police.
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