CYBER FRAUD PROBE UNEARTHS ILLEGAL SIM CARD RING IN MUMBAI
Hindustan Times Ranchi|December 10, 2024
MUMBAI: The central cyber police have busted a racket of illegal SIM (subscriber identity module) card suppliers and arrested eight persons in the city, including six direct sales executives of two leading mobile service providers and two shop-owners from Colaba.
Manish Kumar Pathak

The accused generated new SIM cards by porting inactive mobile numbers and duplicating biometric details of hapless customers; they sold the SIM cards to cyber frauds and foreign tourists for ₹5,000-10,000 a piece, said police officials. They were arrested following a probe into an online trading scam complaint, which revealed that cyber frauds, including customers of the accused, were using 5,000-7,000 SIM cards on a single device in a month, the officials added.

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