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Eight held for conning retired central government employee of Rupees 42 lakh
Believing the caller, he said that he deposited the amount in the bank account given by the caller. After two days, he received another call asking him to deposit Rs 85,300 which was said to be refundable. The fraudster lured the victim that he would get a total Rs 70 lakh as incentive and made him to deposit a total of Rs 42 lakhs.
Hyderabad: Police arrested eight persons including a woman for cheating a retired central government employee to the tune of Rs 42 lakh in the name of giving him an insurance incentive. The Rachakonda Cyber Cell police personnel raided the bogus call center at Motinagar in New Delhi and seized cash worth Rs 1.28 lakh and other equipment like mobile phones, debit cards, etc.
Police took into custody Sophender Singh (25), Inderpreet Kaur (31), Ashok Kumar (30), Himanshu Sharma (24), Navojit Roy (26), Vishnu Kumar (22), Vijay Rai (24) and Md Sarfaraz (22).
Speaking to the media here on Friday, the retired central government employee said that in January this year, he received a phone call from a prankster telling him that he was a member of the governing body of an insurance company based in New Delhi. He also told him that that he was awarded an incentive of Rs 6.3 lakh and said that he must deposit an amount of Rs 20,000 as security deposit for receiving his incentives.
Believing the caller, he said that he deposited the amount in the bank account given by the caller. After two days, he received another call asking him to deposit Rs 85,300 which was said to be refundable. The fraudster lured the victim that he would get a total Rs 70 lakh as incentive and made him to deposit a total of Rs 42 lakhs.
As the fraudster started pestering the retired employee with more and more demands with each passing day, he said that he suspected something foul and lodged a complaint with Cyber Police Cell at Rachakonda. He said that he earlier had a policy which had lapsed and as such, he discontinued it.
Police registered a case of impersonation and took up investigation. During the investigation, information relating to bank account holders where in the victim deposited the money was collected. Based on the analysis of data collected at the call centre from where the accused was trapping the victims.
On July 24, a team lead by Circle Inspector Mohammad Riyazuddin with the assistance of Inspector Hari Krishna, Sub-Inspectors of Police, Ashish Reddy, Anil raided the fake call centre run by the accused in a rented office space situated in penthouse in Motinagar area of Delhi.
The police party was surprised to note that a full-fledged call centre was being run by the accused in which 12 girls and 12 boys were working.
The accused who were arrested were produced before the Tees Hazari Court and brought to Hyderabad on transit Warrant. They would be remanded to judicial custody.
Police recovered 36 landline phones, 8 mobile phones, 24 Debit/ATM cards, 11 cheque books, documents/registers having incriminating evidence and the details of other victims and net cash worth Rs 1,28,700.
