Ahmedabad: Cybercrime police on Friday arrested two young men, both occupants of Sabamati, for allegedly deceiving American citizens by operating the ‘con call center’ in the city.
Both of them will make calls to American citizens on behalf of ‘USA Advance Loan America Loan Center’ fictitious.
Both were accused of being identified as the essence of Rathod and AmandeePsingh Bhatia.
Complaints have been registered by H n Vaghela, a sub-inspector with the Cybercrime police station.
Vaghela states that they receive a tip-off that Rathod and accomplices run the con call center operation from a house in the Mothera area.
The complainant stated that the informant stated that they were running a call center that pretended to be an American loan agent.
The informant also told them that the defendant used to use the MagicJack Mobile application and display the name ‘USA Advance America Loan Center’ on the recipient’s device.
The complainant stated that he was informed that they called Americans and told them that their loan application had been processed, and that they needed to pay loan insurance fees.
They will then tell the target to send them a gift voucher number on WhatsApp, which they will redeem to get money.
Tip-off is verified and decided to carry out an attack.
The complainants stated that when they arrived at home, it was for the loss of Rathod sitting in speaking in English by telephone with his laptop opened.
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He then claimed to the police that he identified himself as an official of the United States loan center.
He also told them that he called Americans using the Magicjack application.
He told investigators that he used to process a gift card through AmandeePsingh Bhatia.
The complainants stated that Rathod said he sent a gift card number in the WhatsApp group, which has an administrator named John Peterson aka Amit Chaudhary, Bapu, Norman aka Mantan Yadav, Mike Avtar Rajpurohit and Jiten Nark.
The complainant stated that Manthan Yadav was the Whatsapp ‘Yadav Depositors’ group administrator.
The police recovered four cellphones and laptops from two accused and looked for others who were group administrators and were investigating their roles in the racket.