Accused were running online cheating racket from Dwarka
Delhi Police has arrested 12 people who posed as executives of an e-commerce giant and duped foreigners on the pretext of providing them technical support.
The accused were identified as Mandeep Singh (39), Sattick Chakraborty (24), Harpreet Singh (30), Nitin Choudhary (26), Jobin George (25), Hanumantu Rao (38), Mohit Gupta (30), Nitesh Kumar (32), Subhodeep Bhattacharya (20), Moumita Majumdar (25), Diksha Khetarpal (28) and Shaba Khatun (25), police said.
According to Santosh Kumar Meena, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Dwarka district, “Specific information was received about some people, who were allegedly involved in running an international online cheating racket from Ramphal Chowk, Dwarka Sector-7.
“The accused were using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling bypassing the legal international long distance (ILD) gateways. They were cheating people based in the US and Canada. On Saturday, police conducted a raid on the premises and found several people engaged in making or receiving the calls. Twelve people were apprehended from there,” said the DCP.
“The accused told the police that they were calling US nationals and posing as tech supporters of an e-commerce organisation through VoIP calls and cheating them. They sent fake pop-ups, like “ransomware detected, security warning” etc. to US residents on their computers. They instructed their targets to call on a number specified on the pop-up in order to pay for technical support to resolve the threat to the e-commerce account,” said the DCP.
“The victims were made to pay money through gift cards which were redeemed in the US-based bank accounts of the accused’s overseas contacts,” the DCP added.