The caller asserted the call was from ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and introduced himself as Vikram Singh, the state’s highest game show, subsequently hosted by the iconic Amitabh Bachchan.

Indraja took the call earnestly and her delight knew no bounds, when she was told that she’d won Rs. 25 lakh in the yearly draw group that is fortunate.

Little did she understand that it was just a lure to entice her into a vortex of cyber crime by a veteran offender, sitting miles away.

The caller requested her to deposit Rs, as she took the lure. She was got to cough up about Rs as gullible Indraja went deeper into the deal.

Whenever instructed her to deposit the sum in another account and another caller called up from another number. It was just after paying about Rs.

A case was filed at the Cyber Crime Cell, to whose account she’d transferred some resources, and after two years of investigation, law enforcement could lay hands on one of the account holders.

The investigation by law enforcement disclosed the whole operation in any cyber crime or the on-line lottery scam is a well-oiled internet, run by individuals whose individuality are not easy to confirm.

The on-line lottery scam is a global scam which is understood by various names like the Nigerian 419 scam. Nobody knows who’s the chief kingpin or if it’s a mafia-like setup, with a global network.

The account holders including Mohammed Sulthan Ansari, who was detained by law enforcement from West Bengal in this case, was merely a conduit whose transfer and bank account was used to receive the capital. The conduits are paid a fees that were modest and she or he only understands what must be understood.

“This is an age old Mafia fashion operation, where one amount of operator has other individuals in the commerce or no knowledge of the next degree. And this is a huge stumbling block that we’ve been facing in the cyber crime investigation.

Issues

Other important hindrance in the investigation of cyber crime, apart from technical upgrades and work force shortage, is lack of support from the providers.

The cyber world is seeking a criminal with the aid of telephone tracking and a tremendous place and IP address is like seeking a needle in a haystack.

“ the slow response from the providers increases Our travails. There’s enormous delay in giving the CDR and other details from the mobile operators.

Most of the wrongdoers use pre- . “To raise the sales, retailers and the vendors of the mobile operators proceed out of the way without rolling up the bona fide ID evidence to sell SIM cards.