Chennai:
A tip-off from a lady in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district, who was being threatened over a mortgage of Rs 18,000 she’d taken by way of an app, has led to arrest of a five-member gang that ran a maze of telephone numbers that have been used for such threats to customers of some foreign-based mortgage apps, police stated at the moment.
The girl had complained of a receiving a sequence of messages threatening to submit her footage on an “escort service” web site — itemizing her as as prostitute — if she didn’t repay.
The gang allegedly ran an unlawful “phone alternate”, that means that they used units to hyperlink as much as 200 SIM playing cards to 1 cell phone quantity, stated Shashank Sai, Superintendent of Police.
They labored for 2 mortgage apps based mostly in Nigeria, and one every from Indonesia and China, investigators stated. To make tracing them more durable, they used a digital personal community (VPN) to entry the web, stated the officer.
One IMEI — a quantity distinctive to each cell phone, one per SIM slot — was discovered to have been linked to 40 units, he added.
Within the categorical case, the girl had initially taken Rs 3,000, after which the gang lured her into taking one other Rs 15,000 by sending her simple weblinks to click on for disbursal.
Police have charged the lads with dishonest and impersonation, apart from invoking the IT Act.
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