Mumbai: Gang Six, all from New Delhi and in their 20s, cheats a 70-year-old retired businessman of Rs 74.55 lakh with lure to give him and his family better insurance policy.
The 20-year-old gang leader, who received Rs 50 Lakh from fraud, has invested Rs 25 Lakh to buy a house in Delhi.
The police have freezed several bank accounts.
All defendants who were arrested were sent to the police detention.
Septuagenarian complainants, who have retired now, live near Grant Road.
One of his sons lives abroad.
He has taken an insurance policy for 10 people including family members and a friend.
He approached the cyber police station in the central region and filed a complaint on August 2.
According to the police, during a pandemic, more people approached insurance or obtained their updated insurance policies.
“All accused of working for companies that are customer service services sub-let the insurance company.
This accusation gets a contact number of insurance policy holders, contact them by telephone, WhatsApp and email.
We question the defendant,” said DCP Rashmi Karandikar, head of the cyber police station City.
Those who were arrested include Adnan Khan, 20, Saurabh Kanhaiyalal, 19, Parsoon Sinha, 21, Harshit Chhikara 21, Pankaj Shah, 32 and Mohit Mittal, 21.
They worked in a private company that was given a job to call the customer insurance company for police updates , Top-up, updating policies, etc.
The defendant then conspired and used the contact number given to them, called insurance policy holders, gathering details about their adhar cards, debit cards, etc.
Then, pretending to be a policy holder, they called the insurance company and gathered more information about certain policyholders, police said.
The defendant then again called the policy holder, especially senior citizens, and lured them with great deals.
They asked the victims to pay fees for written statements, policy taxes, GST, NOC, updating policies, top-up etc.
“Take money in their bank account.
The money is stored in seven bank accounts.
We try to get more details,” said Inspector Sanjay Govilkar, was responsible for the Cyber ​​Police Station.
The investigator said they had freezed several bank accounts and knew the New Delhi property where Khan had invested Rs 25 Lakh.
The police expect to recover around Rs 50 Lakh at this stage.
Police probing if the gang cheats others too.