Arga student arrested for hack bank account for a dare in online game

It is common now to lure the next generation to commit cyber-crime with the help of an online game and again the similar case occurred this time a 20-year-old student (Sagar Singh) of agra arrested for hack a bank account and debit approximately 10 lakhs rupees
12 may hariwansh lal srivastava filla FIR  at Bilariyaganj police station in Azamgarh for a debit of 10 Lakhs from his bank account between April 10 to May 12
"We worked the case entirely on electronic evidence and surveillance. We traced the mobile phone used to hack Srivastava's account from Lohia Nagar under Balkeshwar police station in Agra. The handset was traced to one Sagar Singh," said the SP.
During the interrogation sagar confessed to have committed the crime , but revealed  that it was actually a part of a 'dare' he had completed in order to win a stage in an online game called 'Fire power'.
He said that the online site also offers opportunities to make money through such expertise.
Sagar disclosed that the online gaming site has an international presence.
"I got drawn into the game during the lockdown period. First, one has to qualify difficult stages and then you get diamond and gold coins to crack other stages. As you gradually cross the stages the online game also tutors tricks of hacking," Sagar said when the police produced him before media persons.
The SP said that the online gaming gang is pushing gaming enthusiasts into crime. "They keep track of such enthusiasts and then lure them with deals for cracking stages in a game. They are asked to either pay or solve a dare, which is hacking," he added.

The police are studying the pattern and on the basis of Sagar's confession, have also traced seven members of the gang, including six youth and a woman.

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