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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted massive raids in Rajasthan and Punjab in a major action against an international cyber fraud network operating from Cambodia. Investigation has revealed that thousands of Indian SIM cards were being fraudulently activated and sent to foreign networks, which were being used for large-scale cyber fraud in India.
During the investigation, the agency analyzed about 2.3 lakh suspicious mobile numbers. A shocking fact emerged that about 36 thousand Indian SIM cards were active in Cambodia. Of these, about 5,300 SIM cards were directly used in cyber fraud cases in India. According to the investigating agencies, fraud worth hundreds of crores of rupees was carried out across the country through these numbers.
ED initiated this action on the basis of FIR registered in Jodhpur Cyber Police Station under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Under this action, which started on June 5, a search operation was conducted at a total of seven places in Kishangarh, Nagaur and Jodhpur of Rajasthan along with Ludhiana of Punjab. During the raid, ED has seized a huge amount of documents, digital evidence, electronic devices and 14 mobile phones.
SIMs were sent through Malaysian citizens
According to ED, this entire network was working in a very planned manner. SIM sellers used to call people using Point of Sale (POS) IDs of telecom companies on the pretext of getting a new SIM or porting their mobile number. Additional SIM cards were also activated in the name of people with less education and lack of awareness by taking their documents. Later these SIM cards were sent to Cambodia through Malaysian citizens.
This is how the racket used to work
- Used to call people to get SIM port done for free.
- Additional SIM cards were activated on their documents.
- Activated SIMs were delivered to Malaysian citizens fraudulently. These SIMs were sent to Cambodia through Malaysian citizens.
- Cyber criminals based in Cambodia used to cheat people through digital arrest and other means using these Indian numbers.
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