Delhi Police here on Sunday have managed to bust out a fake web site
of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) which is named as “Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Yojna”. Police also managed to arrest the culprit behind this
website who was cheating many folks across the country on the pretext of
providing them government loans, and with other offerings.
Delhi and West Bengal Police have done an operation conjointly and
arrested Sudipta Chatterjee, the 43-year-old who is the mastermind of
this racket from Howrah, from where this network has its base.
“The fake website was created with the aim of cheating people of
their money on the pretext of providing them loans for various projects
and schemes,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra
Yadav.
20 mobile phones, hard disks, web dongles, cheques which are
associated with forty three bank accounts, fake project reports, some
criminatory documents, sixteen rubber stamps of Government offices are
found along with him during his arrest.
The details of this fake server were obtained on the basis of the
fake URL address : www.pmay-gov.in. Sudipta Chatterjee who was arrested
in Howrah was produced in the court in West Bengal and he was sent to
Delhi on transit remand. According to the police official, Sudipta
Chatterjee created the above mentioned fake website, projected it as a
government website with his tactics and hosted it on a server based
mostly within the US.
“To confuse the users, the URL had the reflection of a government
website and it was listed on priority with Google. Whenever, any online
surfer would search this website would figure in the top hits,” the
official said. There were enough reasons to believe that is was
absolutely a government web site said the official.Sudipta Chatterjee who was arrested had used seventeen tele-callers to
contact prospective clients and provides them the number of their
form. He trained those 17 tele-callers and he also provided the scripts
to them that were ready with him that was made with much caution, in
order that the client has not thought of being cheated.
There were some clauses regarding the banking transactions, within
which the client himself would be persuaded that he needs to maintain a
fixed quantity in his account as security.
The mastermind Sudpita Chatterji would additionally acquire signed
cheques, ATM cards, PIN number of the accounts and would direct the
prospective client that he shouldn’t avail any telebanking or web
banking facility in that account which was submitted. Once these steps
were completed which are according to his proceedings, he would withdraw
the security amount from the client’s account.
Chatterjee additionally disclosed that his associate was an internet
designer with the help of his Chatterjee produced different domains by
the name of bharat-sarkar.in, govindia.in, CGTMSE-govt.in,
CGTMSE-gov.in. He additionally created similar e-mails by the name of goi@developmentofindia.in and project@developmentofindia.in.