The Tamil Nadu Cyber ​​Crime Wing has revealed a network of FedEx fraudsters operating under the direction of an arbitrator in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who coordinates operations with operatives.

In a major operation, the Cyber ​​Crime Wing has arrested seven men involved in a large-scale FedEx scam in which a Chennai resident was defrauded of Rs. 1.18 million euros. The scammers posed as FedEx executives and cyber crime investigation officers to manipulate the victim into transferring large sums of money under the guise of proving innocence in a bogus criminal investigation.

Initially, on August 2, the victim in Chennai received a call from a person posing as a FedEx customer care executive. The scammer informed her that her parcel contained prohibited goods and transferred her call to a person posing as a cyber crime investigation officer who threatened her with legal consequences if she did not deposit funds into various bank accounts to -prove his innocence. Following these threats, the victim transferred Rs. 1.18 crore to multiple accounts before realizing that she was duped. She filed an online complaint at the national cyber crime reporting portal and later filed a complaint at the cyber crime wing headquarters in Chennai.

Initial investigation by the Cyber ​​Crime Wing led to the arrest of three accused, one of the account holders named Ramesh Bhadabhai and two cyber criminals Vivek Beladiya Damajbhai and Paresh Narshibhai Kalsaria from Gujarat. Later, the police arrested Vipul Bhagubhai Kovadiya from Darang, Bhuj Gujarat, who acted as a mediator between the agents and the cybercriminals.

During Vipul’s arrest, he disclosed that two more Maharashtra based agents were involved in this case and they were the main F2F (Face to Face) agents in this case and they would have the contact of the main accused in Dhaka, Bangaladesh.

Additional Director General of Police, Cyber ​​Crime Wing Sandeep Mittal said, “We used advanced investigative techniques to trace cyber criminals from Kuruduwadi, Maharashtra and arrested two accused Sahil and Shahrukha. Sahil had installed an APK OTP file on the account holder’s phone, enabling fraudulent transfers. The investigation revealed the network operating under the direction of an executive in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who coordinates operations with agents like Sahil working as agents to interact with account holders.

The two were remanded in custody.