Mumbai: Matunga police have registered a new cheating case against a group of people because of deceiving an engineering student RS 1.50 lakh with the pretext of giving him a ‘call boy’ job.
Earlier on January 14, Matunga police arrested New Delhi Resident Rohitkumar Gowardhan (30) for allegedly deceiving the son of a 23-year-old police from Rs 1.53 Lakh by offering the ‘Call Boy’ job.
Gowardhan is currently in police custody.
The second case of a similar modus operandi was registered last week.
Complainants, who learn in the second year of the technique, have seen advertisements on Facebook for the work of a call boy.
“He called the contact number mentioned in the ad.
The telephone receiver, a woman, told him about his job profile and said that he would be given Rs 25,000 per job.
Then, the woman gave him the number of clients who asked him to contact him,” said a police officer .
Complainants, such as the first cheating case, given the company’s identity card also through WhatsApp.
The complainant calls the number given to him.
A woman answered and said she would book a hotel room and make all its own settings.
“The woman asked for a complainant to deposit money in a account that said it would be returned together with costs when they met directly,” police said.
Even after transferring money, there is no response.
He was then given a number of women again.
He contacted two other numbers and women repeating similar demands.
“In this way, the complainant finally pays Rs 1.50 lakh.
Then, he realized, he was cheated and approached the police,” added investigators.
This seems to be a different gang, police said.
Meanwhile, the police have restored Rs 1.53 lakh taken by Gowardhan from a son of a police officer by offering the boy’s work.
Gowardhan was arrested by a police team led by Psi Rajabhau Garad.
The investigator said that despite the modus operandi in two similar cases, it seemed like the work of two different gangs.
The police are now gathering information about three bank accounts where money is transferred, the SIM card used in crime and Facebook account.