A New Angle in misuse of cyber space -- A threat to Nation
The Investigation of a kidnap case in Shivakasi of Tamilnadu focuses a new light about pumping of Hawala money from our neighbour country.The responsibility of the Indian citizen in the protection of the nations intrest is once aganin in question.
A ransom call to the parents of the 14-year-old boy, who was suspected to be kidnaped, was made from Pakistan. The IB was alerted because of the received phone call is from Pakistan. it is a starnge case of ran away of a boy from home,the worried parents mistook a wrong call from an abductor, who in turn saw an opportunity in their plight to make some money.the investigation found that the call was made to Boys mother mobile from pakistan which she mistook as a ransom call.
The caller who had dialed the boy mother mistakenly , decided to exploit the vulnerable parents and sought Rs 25 lakh. The caller gave a bank account number and aske the money to be deposited there.
the police officials were tracked the call and found it as it is from Pakistan, and the account holders traced to Dindigul near Madurai.
The plot behind this came in light is that one Pakistani had appointed agents in Dindigul of Tamilnadu for buying DTH scrap cards from India to beam TV programmes that are banned in Pakistan.
the acount holders used to receive calls from Pakistan for past two years. The caller had asked them to source DTH scrap cards aganist 20% commission promised. The bank account was created for the Pakistani to deposit the money due to the agents. The account holders had since been buying DTH cards and selling the serial numbers to the Pakistani, who in turn, used to beam the programmes illegally to his customers.
The money deposited into the account from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi. They believe this to be a new form of Hawala and suspect a network to be running it.The citizens responsibilty in understanding of such traps by a offensive country , they must infrom the police but instead they want to make money out of the chance.....the citizens should think on these ..................