Detective Department (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested 11 individuals together with the mastermind of a parcel fraud ring.

In line with DB, the ring chief Biplab Lashkar who was a porter grew to become a millionaire by fraudulent actions.

On Monday (5 September), the web-based crime investigation workforce of the Cyber and Particular Crime (North) Division of the DB arrested him and his gang members by raids in numerous areas together with Mirpur within the capital.

The arrestees are Biplab Lashkar, his associates Sumon Hossain alias Imran, Mohsin Hossain alias Shaon, Imran Hasan alias Iqbal, Nazmul Haque Roni and Mst Nusrat Jahan.

Apart from, Nigerian residents Chidi, Emmanuel, John, Angolan citizen Wilson de Consicou, and Cameroonian citizen Gulgni Papini have been arrested within the raids.

In a press convention held at DMP Media Centre on Tuesday (6 September), DB Chief Extra Commissioner Mohammad Harun or Rashid mentioned the group used numerous strategies to gather the Fb ID, WhatsApp, e-mail addresses of frequent individuals and use completely different identities like US Military, US Navy and so forth to develop pleasant relations with the focused individuals.

“At one level within the relationship, they despatched photos of pretend parcels, pretending to ship presents of gold, treasured stones, diamonds, giant sums of international foreign money and so forth,” he informed the media.

Bangladeshi fraudsters used quite a few completely different operators to impersonate customs officers and claimed {that a} parcel has arrived from “King Categorical Service” and demanded an enormous sum of money within the title of customs home charges.

They used to dam the victims on all social media platforms as quickly as the cash they claimed was deposited into the checking account they offered, the DB chief added.

DB officers mentioned that the gang cast the passports of varied people and took lots of of accounts and bank cards in numerous banks for transactions of their cash gained by dishonest.

Biplab Lashkar used to gather and distribute cash. He had been instantly monitoring the gang by WhatsApp utilizing numbers of various international international locations.