When lottery email scam turns into murder!

A gang of five, who used to cheat people through lottery email, killed one of their own “aged 15-17 years”. The gang was using the girl’s bank account for collecting money. How did the bank allow a minor girl to operate the account? Where were the KYC norms?

With banks becoming ‘hyper active’ in creating awareness about not to share bank account numbers and passwords with anyone, the criminal minds are, more often, found using ‘lottery’ route to dupe people. Unfortunately, the loss in such lottery scam messages is not limited to money alone. As the recent incident from Pune points out, these criminals even killed their own accomplice as she wanted to leave the gang.

According to a report from Mid-Day, on 7th May the police found body of 17-year old Rani Singh in a red suitcase abandoned at Talegaon railway station near Pune. Police arrested three people, Rahul Ravindra Barai, Ershan Ali Khureshi and Santosh Jugdar from Mumbai and after the probe found that they, including Rani belonged to a five member gang and were involved in cheating people. “Recently, Singh, the victim who was also a member of the gang, had told them that she planned to leave the group. Angry with her for defecting, the trio killed her on the orders of the gang leader,” the report says.
When lottery email scam turns into murder