Delhi cyber cell busts online investment scam, 2 persons held

South District cyber cell busted an online investment scam in New Delhi on December 14 and held two persons in this connection, Vijay Masih (41) and Mohamm Abutalif Mansuri (27). 

se two torious cheaters, Masih being mastermind, used to dupe people on pretext of investment in online share market tring. 

ir scam came to light when Mohd Sajid Husain fell victim to ir fraud and registered a complaint in Neb Sarai Police Station. duo has a close-knit gang who call people up and ask m to invest in ir online tring company and assure m a return of 12 to 17 per cent per month that could double ir investments in a short time. Mohd Sajid Husain got duped in May by a person called Rahi. He was told to meet Masih and was called repeatedly to persue him to make investment. Mohd Sajid n gave m Rs 22 lakh - Rs 15 lakh fund transfer and Rs 7 lakh in cash - to invest in share market.

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Initially, he was paid back with interest but a couple of months later, gang dropped off map, closing ir ida office. Mohd Sajid n found out that y have robbed large sums off of many people and rushed to police in south district, and also contacted District Cyber Cell. 

Two persons held

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Cyber cell checked profiles of accused after receiving complaint and it was found that y have many accounts in various banks and have collected huge amounts of money from different people in a planned way, promising to give handsome returns in name of investment in online tring. 

cyber cell n registered a complaint and investigation was taken up. During investigation, a team has been formed which is going to be supervised by ACP Udaiveer Singh. team laid a trap near Saket as fraudsters were set up to come to collect money from a person.

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Both accused persons were apprehended on December 12 and were arrested after a detailed interrogation. Masih, mastermind, h employed four-five boys on 20-30 per cent commission basis in getting one target plus bonus on trapping huge investors.

y later confessed that y h collected money from more than 100 people, h got 15 accounts opened under different names and different banks which have more than Rs 5 crore of transactions in two years. 

Furr investigation is underway. 

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(With Inputs from ANI)