The Delhi Police Crime Branch has busted a fake call centre being run by a gang of cheats who were involved in duping unemployed educated youths on the pretext of providing them jobs. The police said that the arrested persons are partners of the firm running a call centre.
A fully functional fake call centre with all amenities like laptops, desktops, printers, PRI line phones of Airtel, mobile phones and several incriminating documents has been seized, claimed police.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime (North) G Ramgopal Naik, said the accused has been identified as Abhimanyu Singh (24), Om Vasudev Sharma (27) and Ravi Kashyap (24), all of whom are residents of Uttar Pradesh.
On March 23, a complaint was received wherein the complainant Rachna (name changed), a MCom (Final year) student and resident of Bhubneshwar in Orissa, had complained that she had submitted her resume for a job at Monster.com. Thereafter, she received a call from Zeeobs.com regarding a job and they asked her to register herself on their site. They demanded a registration fee of Rs ,2300 from her, said the DCP.
After depositing the required fee for registration, when she contacted the officials of Zeeobs, they further demanded Rs 6,500 for the interview. She refused to pay further and asked them for cancelling of her registration and refund of fee to which they replied that they would refund after two months. Suspecting the above site to be a fake site, she lodged a complaint.
The DCP said, “The CDRs of the mobile numbers given in the complaint were analysed. The addresses on which the mobile numbers were issued were found to be fake. From the CDR analysis, it was revealed that the given numbers were being used for calling the prospective victims. Some of the victims were also contacted who also reported to have been cheated by the above firms in the same manner,"
“The analysis of the bank accounts also revealed that small amounts in the form of registration fee, etc. is being deposited in the said account by the victims belonging to various parts of the country," added DCP Naik.
During the investigation, the address mentioned with the bank account was found to be locked. It was found that the address was used only for procuring the bank account. On further probe the call centre of the accused was found to be located in laxmi Nagar in East Delhi after which a raid was conducted and the accused persons were arrested.