The Ghaziabad Police has busted a gang of fraudsters and arrested 10 of them for cheating the public by promising them to provide lucrative jobs in different companies of international repute.
The SP City Akash Tomar, told reporters, “In continuation of the investigation in a fake call centre case which was registered after we received a mail from a victim, we have arrested 10 other accomplices after the accused revealed details during investigation. We recovered 20 walky talkies, a packing machine, two printers, seals of different companies, 18 chargers, three charger boards, three power banks and four registers containing clients’ name.”
The accused revealed their names as Rajendra and Pushpendra from Badaun, Nitin from Bihar, Kareem from West Bengal, Vimlesh, a woman from Pilibhit, Himanshu and Alok from Bulandshahr, Neeraj and Rohit from Mainpuri and Jeet Singh from Vandna Enclave in Ghaziabad.
Earlier, Ghaziabad Police, in a swift action had arrested a fraud who was running a fake call centre to mint money in the name of providing job in Indigo Airlines. The arrest was made after a victim mailed his complaint to the SP City.
The SP City told that he received a mail from Pranav Tiwari, a resident of Allahabad, who complained that he received a mail from -recruitment12@gmail.com followed by a phone call from mobile number 8377834952 to provide a job in Indigo airlines.
The caller told him to deposit Rs 2,000 in a State Bank of India’s savings bank account number 36700145988 as file processing charges.
On the callers demand, he reposted the said amount. Again on June 6, he received a call that an amount of Rs 6,500 has to be deposited. On his second call he doubted his intension so he refused the deposit the money. After this, he instantly mailed his complaint to the Ghaziabad SP City on his mail ID.
On the instruction of SP city, the Khoda police registered the complaint under section 420, 466 of IPC and 66 of IT Act. Police raided the hide out place in Deepak Vihar near Vishal Mega Mart and found a call centre was being run from there.
During interrogation the suspect identified himself as Santosh Kumar, a resident of Vaishali district in eastern UP. His accomplice fled the spot who was told to be a resident of Noida.
The police recovered seven mobile phones in addition to a mobile phone from the accused’s pocket which contained the SIM of the same number against whom the complaint was lodged.
Police further recovered a laptop, its charger and a register in which 84 names were found mentioned as their next client to mint money. The arrests made on Monday are in continuation of the investigation being conducted by the Khoda police added the SP City.