Techie sends lewd SMSs, held

Hyderabad: The Cyber Crime Police of the CID on Friday arrested a software engineer for allegedly harassing a girl by sending her abusive emails and SMSs.


The accused, Harihara Kumar, 25, of Ramanthapur is a network administrator at an IT firm at Gachibowli. On June 2, the victim, who is Kumar's close relative, complained to the cyber police that she, her friends and family members were receiving abusive emails and SMSs from anonymous persons.


The police obtained email log data, and mobile phone SMS data of the accused from the service providers. As he used SIM cards obtained on fake ID proofs, they found it difficult to track him down. Finally, after questioning several people, they arrested him on Thursday. Police said he bore a grudge against the victim, an engineering student, as she had rejected his marriage proposal.


He hacked into her mail account and created a fake Facebook account in her name and started maligning her character. The court remanded him in judicial custody.

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City phishing cases traced to Mumbai

BANGALORE: The cyber crime police, after a two-year investigation, have proved that a Mumbai mafia is phishing the IT city. They have arrested three persons in connection with three separate incidents.
They have also proved that the ‘phishing mafia’ is not directly using their e-accounts but is using accounts of others on commission basis.
A CID official of the SP’s rank said that this is a dangerous trend because many such ‘phishing cases’ reported in Bangalore are being traced to Mumbai. “We suspect there could be a mafia which runs anti-social activities after availing money by doing these types of hi tech-robbery,” he added.
The Cyber Crime Police Station (CCPS) registered around 100 such phishing cases in 2009, but for them it is very difficult to trace the accused as they are using benami bank accounts, sources said. Now the CCPS has succeeded in arresting three persons, all from Mumbai in connection with some cases. The police also said that the accused are graduates with the knowledge of computer. The investigations are still on.
Case 1 The cyber police arrested one Abdul Khan Khair (28) from Halav Pool Kurla West Mumbai on Wednesday.
Exactly two years ago, (July 25, 2009) he did phishing on behalf of one Feroze of Rs 1 lakh. He transferred Rs 1 Lakh (Rs 50,000 twice) from the ICICI account of one IT professional Abhishek Malviya, a native of Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. Malviya, after checking with the ICICI bank, got to know that the money was transferred to the accounts of Atul Javed Khan and Manojkumar Solanki.
Police suspect that the two names are benami and the accused who transferred the money from Malviya’s account through internet banking is Abdul Khan Khair.
Khan told the interrogators that he did this internet fraud as suggested by one Feroze for availing commission amount from the latter, police detailed.
Case 2 The CCPS sleuths arrested one Syed Mohemmed Kafil (27) of Naupada, Bandra West of Maharastra. He was arrested in a case on July 17 which was registered on August 31 of 2009 by an IT professional Babuprasad Chakravarty, an employee with a BPO run by Infosys company. An amount of Rs 30,000 from his ICICI savings bank account was transferred to another account.
When he checked with the bank, they told the money was transferred to an account at Mumbai.
The cyber police have now traced the accused to Mumbai and arrested him, police said.
Case 3 Pratik (25) was arrested from his native Bhayandar of Mumbai on July 17. He had transferred Rs 75,000 through ‘phishing’ from the ICICI account of BS Gurudev, an employee with an IT firm in Indiranagar on August 20, 2009. The money was transferred four times from his account to the account of the accused on the same day, police said.

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