Three of cyber fraud gang held in Amreli

Rajkot: Amreli police arrested three members of a gang who used to hack into Facebook accounts of people and ask for money from their friends through UPI payment channel.
According to police, the mastermind Pritesh Prajapati, a resident of Mehmadabad was an expert in hacking into Facebook accounts. The police also arrested Akshay Chetaria and Jagdish Chetaria, residents of Bhanvad taluka of Devbhumi Dwarka district, for allowing Prajapati to use their bank accounts to deposit the money that he fraudulently got from the Facebook users
Police said, Prajapati used some technique to get the OTP (one-time password) of the user to change the FB account password.He used to forge Aadhar card of the victim and then use it to generate a new password with a new email ID.
Amreli deputy superintendent of police J P Bhandari said, “The accused used to get money through UPI in the bank account of people who didn’t have much knowledge of banking. In this case, the other two accused allowed Prajapati to their bank accounts in exchange for monetary benefits.”
Police said that Prajapati has admitted to hacking into FB account of two persons from Amreli and one from Junagadh. He allegedly conned friends of these persons into paying him Rs 45,000.
Police said that Prajapati was booked for various offences in eight police stations of Morbi, Rajkot, Mehmadabad, Valsad and Sabarkantha.