Jamtara India: The Hub Of Cyber Crime
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The Jamtara Files: Cyber frauds on the prowl from your smartphones to your wallet, with audacity
India today's ground report in jharkhand's jamtara, one of the most notorious hotspots of digital fraud that has even inspired a netfilx series, has found scammers have become more organized and innovative..
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Shock SMS ultimatums about power disconnection at houses, offices and stores in the middle of night. Business and work-from-home offers sound too good to be true. Messages and emails asking smartphone users to tap links of fly-by-night sites.
If all that wasn't enough, cyber cheats are now preying upon intimate imagery to shame – and blackmail – their victims.
Jamtara model extends far and wide, watch this report from the national capital #TheJamtaraFiles #Cybercrime #Jharkhand #Jamtara #Newstrack | @rahulkanwal @aviralhimanshu @arvindojha pic.twitter.com/pUjUUIZuW4 — IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) October 12, 2022
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"I received multiple messages from multiple numbers on WhatsApp and calls threatening me that my morphed explicit images will be uploaded online if I didn’t pay up. They demanded 50,000, 20,000, 10,000, 5,000 rupees, different amounts in different messages and calls. They gave a UPI link, but I refused to pay," he told India Today.
In Ali’s case, cyber criminals allegedly used his ordinary social-media pictures and videos and mapped them on to nude imagery.
His blackmailers were audacious.
LOCAL BUSINESSES TAKE BRUNT IN JAMTARA
Jamtara recorded 76 cases of cybercrime in 2021 alone. The cyber police in the Jharkhand district has already registered 60 similar complaints this year till now.
"It was an organised crime...," Actor Shubhangi Atre shares how she was scammed #TheJamtaraFiles #Cybercrime #Jamtara #Newstrack | @rahulkanwal pic.twitter.com/Va4WjZQ0TM — IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) October 12, 2022
Saurabh Gutgutia and Tarun Gupta, local businessmen, told India Today they are reluctant to use ATM and debit cards over fears someone might steal their codes and with that their money from bank accounts.
MESSAGES THAT CREATE PANIC, CURIOSITY, ANXIETY
Jharkhand’s cyber police explained how the scammers design their messaging to get their potential victims upset or anxious. Take for example a message about an imminent blackout at the recipients’ properties.
"It's the bait to catch their target’s attention," said Ajay Kumar, in charge of Jamtara’s cyber police station. And if the potential victims fell for it and called the number embedded in the message, they would likely be told to download a screen-mirroring app on phones or computer systems.
"Once it’s done, the cheats will get all the PINs, ATM passwords and CVVs and do the transactions they want to do," Kumar said.
Authorities in Jamtara have bolstered their defences.
According to the district's deputy commissioner, FaizAq Ahmed Mumtaz, enforcement involves ED action on people found to be in possession of wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income.
An extensive operation by Delhi’s cyber police unit, spread over ten days starting late August, led to the arrest of 65 suspects from raids in 22 cities across India.
After electricity consumers in the national capital lodged some 200 complaints on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal about fraudulent messages threatening power disconnection for pending bills, investigators from New Delhi analysed the digital trail and swooped down on Jaipur, Indore, Ludhiana, Jamtara, Giridih, Deogarh, Dhanbad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Mumbai, Katihar, the national capital region and several other cities.
"It is the latest modus operandi of cyber frauds. They would send bulk messages to electricity consumers, asking them to clear unpaid bills or face power disconnection at night," said Prashant Gautam, the DCP of Delhi’s cybercrime unit, the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO). "These messages carry a link or a number. In panic, people would call up that number where they are told to furnish KYC details."
The cyber thieves follow the same Jamtara model: asking their victims to download screen-mirroring apps in order to steal bank account numbers, passwords, OTPs and so forth and make off with deposits.
"They (the cheats) use two methods – one, they will have you deposit the money digitally (into fake accounts) by compelling you to share your OTPs for clearing the bill. Second, they will have you install an application that allows them access to your mobile phone and your information stored on the handset," the IFSO chief explained.
Investigations revealed this cybercrime syndicate involved vendors issuing mobile phone chips on fake documents, people holding bank accounts on fake documents, poor people renting out their accounts to cyber cheats and a network of telecallers tricking consumers into downloading screen-sharing applications.
