4 held in Guwahati for cyber fraud ring links

Guwahati: Assam Police have nabbed four persons in Guwahati for their suspected connection with a cyber fraud ring operating from outside the state. The group is accused of cheating numerous people in the city and other regions of Assam.

The arrested individuals have allegedly been procuring “mule accounts” from local residents and providing them to scammers based in other states.

The four accused — Mustafa Ali, Mukhtar Ali, Jabed Ali and Azim Uddin — were caught on Friday afternoon when they arrived in the city’s Hatigaon area to collect account details. All of them hail from Sualkuchi in Kamrup district.

A case has been registered against them at Hatigaon police station under sections 316(2) and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita. All of them are currently in police custody.

Bidyut Kumar Nath, the investigating officer, said, “The accused used to collect account details duping common people who are not aware of their accounts getting misused by cyber frauds and hand those over to the scammers in exchange of money. The accounts also include those belonging to deceased people. Later, the scammers use these ‘mule accounts’ to deposit money gathered through various cyber fraud activities.”

The police officer said the accused have been operating for the past few months and have provided around 10-15 accounts to the scammers.

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