Cyber cell nabs 2 for duping via fake call centre

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Cyber cell nabs 2 for duping via fake call centre

Tuesday, 30 July 2019 | Staff Reporter | Bhopal

Two members of an interstate gang involved in duping senior citizens in the name of renewal of lapsed insurance policies were nabbed by Cyber Cell Indore unit from Delhi; call centers were operated by miscreants to target policies holders have lapsed insurances.

While talking to media persons, ADG Cyber Crime Purushottam Sharma said that 63 mobile numbers have been seized from the miscreants and 22 different bank accounts have been recovered which were used to dupe the victims across the country. The victims were duped in the name of making their lapsed policy active and would ask to deposit money in different bank accounts. 

In the initial investigation Saurabh Goyal was nabbed from Delhi running Krishna Infotech which was used to make payments through POS and Rs 92 lakh were collected through POS from the victims. During the investigation when he was quizzed he confessed that another member of gang Shashikant Mudliyaar from Chennai is involved in the fraud. Later Shashikant was nabbed who confessed 400 transactions and collecting Rs 2 crore from the victims.

A complaint was lodged by the victim Harikrishna Shukla of Indore with the cyber cell stating that he has duped Rs 39 lakh for renewal of lapsed policy. During the investigation it was found that a nexus is working targeting senior citizens and policy holders having lapsed policies.

The cyber cell has 6 complaints of fraud related with insurance from Bhopal, Indore two each and one each from Jabalpur and Gwalior and the total fraud is over Rs 1.5 crores.  

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