One Jayanthi Siva Swaroop, 30, of Tirupati was arrested by Cyber Crime police for cheating gullible public on pretext of providing loans and collecting money as processing charges.
According to Cyber Crime police, on October 29 this year, one KLK Reddy of Nagole, Hyderabad lodged a complaint with Cyber Crime Police Station, Gachibowli stating that he responded to an SMS from mobile number 8008791650 that was sent to him in August 2014 in which it was stated one ADN Finance Pvt Ltd of Mumbai offers loans at 5% per annum and asked to send copies of land documents for approval to the email address provided by him: loansadn@gmail.com.
Later, the complainant received a call from another number 9966846335 and informed that a loan of Rs 45 lakh was approved after verification of the land documents sent by him. Further, he was asked to deposit Rs 25,000 for Insurance and Rs 22,500 as processing charges. He was given SBI (MG Road branch, Vijayawada) account details of Nuta Prakash with A/c No 20189424877. Despite remitting the charges, no loan was sanctioned. Later the culprit could not be reached on the mobile numbers.
Investigation revealed that the accused Jayanthi Siva Swaroop of Tirupati used to work as Technical Support Executive in a Vizag-based BPO. To earn money easily, he sent SMSes to many mobile numbers, with offer that loans will be given at low interest rates. Many needy victims fell to the trap of the accused. The accused morphing the genuine copy of Aadhaar card, created a forged one on the name of Nuta Prakash r/o. Mogalrajapuram, Vijayawada and submitted it for opening an account with SBI, MG Road branch, Vijayawada. Using this account, the accused got money deposited towards charges for processing loan applications emailed to him.
After the victims deposited money, he used to withdraw money immediately from various ATMs in Vizag thereby cheating the gullible victims. The culprit was arrested on December 20 and a cash of Rs 20,000 was recovered from him along with two mobile phones, one laptop, a datacard and two Aadhaar card copies on fictitious names.
Earlier, the culprit was arrested in June 2013 by the L.B. Nagar police when he tried to open an account at Karur Vysya Bank, L.B.Nagar branch, by submitting forged documents on fake name.
The case is being investigated by Mohammad Riyazuddin, Inspector of Police, Cyber Crime PS, assisted by Sub-Inspector D. Ashish Reddy, under the guidance of S. Jayaram, M. Snehita ACPs, Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad under supervision of B. Srinivas Reddy, Addl. DCP (Crimes), Cyberabad. (NSS)