Ghaziabad: Cyber Ghaziabad cells raided the call center and arrested three people for allegedly cheating more than hundreds of people with the pretext of an insurance policy update or providing loans with low interest rates.
The defendant was identified as Himanshu Shekhar (32), a resident of Bihar, Johnny Singh (25), a native of Ghaziabad and Sandeep Gupta (29) from Banda.
Johnny is the owner of the call center and he runs it for the past three months in the center of Raj Nagar District.
The police said that he constantly changed his office to avoid catching.
While Himanshu will buy a SIM card from Bihar using the documents of the poor to some money, Gupta will open an account in various banks for fraud transactions.
Describe the modus operandi, Abhay Mishra, Circle Officer Indirapuram and is responsible for Cyber Cell, told Ti that the defendant made a call to the policy holder and told them that their policy would end.
“They offer a policy update with a discount rate and promises favorable returns if they invest in other policies.
Once the target agreed, they were told to send photos of their bank savings books and copies of aadhaar cards through WhatsApp or email,” he said.
Mishra said, “After the defendant received a document, they would notify the victims to share OTPs received on their cellphone numbers connected with their bank account.
Using OTP, they will then assess the target bank account and transfer money to other banks.” Allegations also Deceiving with the pretext of providing low flowering loans.
After transferring the number, the defendant will break the SIM and transfer small amounts of money to another account.
They were arrested by Aligarh police in January 2021 but were released with a guarantee.
They were ordered under Section 420 (cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for fraud), 471 (using as a genuine false document), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and have documents described in section 466 or 467, knowing it was forged and intending to use it as genuine) IPC.
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