Investigating in the case registered at cyber police station in which the complainant was duped of Rs 10 lakh under the pretext of providing job, the cyber police team busted a fake call centre in New Delhi and arrested five accused including two women on Wednesday. They have also managed to recover Rs 6,56,000 of the complainant’s money among other things.
The accused have been identified as Tushar Kanda, Mayank Kanda, Monu Mishra, Khushbu Tyagi and Simmi Dhawan. They are all residents of New Delhi.
Cyber police have also recovered one laptop, seven computer systems, 13 keypad phones, six android phones, 52 sim cards, ATM cards, forged Aadhaar and PAN cards, three gold coins and one gold chain. As per the information provided by STF, they received complaint from Malin Chandra Das, native of Kolkata presently residing at IT Park, Dehradun, in which he stated that he was duped by some unknown people who then hacked his internet banking account and stole Rs 10 lakh.
Upon investigating about the mobile phones, e-wallet and bank accounts used in this particular crime were all on incorrect numbers and addresses.
After that a team was established under cyber police station inspector Pankaj Pokhriyal and sent to Delhi, Haryana and Noida.
It was found that accounts of different banks were involved in the case including HDFC, Kotak- Mahindra, Canara and ICICI bank. The team then coordinated with the related bank branch and verified account owners, among which an account at Kotak Mahindra bank was found suspicious. When the account was verified it got linked with a call centre where the team after collecting enough evidence conducted raid.
During initial interrogation the accused told the police that they received data about the people applying for jobs through Monster website, after which they used to contact the people and dupe them under the pretext of providing job. On the call they used to ask the victim to apply through a fake website that is Job rescue.
com by paying Rs 10 through internet banking. After the victim used to enter his or her internet banking information on the website, the application procedure would show transaction failed on the screen, but the accused used to get the required information.
