Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a major breakthrough, local cyber crime branch busted a call centre in Delhi and arrested four persons including three women who would call bank customers to dupe them of cash on pretext of upgrading their credit limit.
The call centre was being run for the past two years and the gang duped hundreds of people across the country. The kingpin of the gang and some other members are still at large, police said.
Additional police commissioner, cyber crime, Sujeet Tiwari on Wednesday said investigations were launched on a complaint of a man who said he was duped of Rs 95,500 on pretext of upgrading his credit card limit. The cyber crime cell traced the bank account and mobile number used in the crime and on basis of available information busted a call centre, which was run in New Delhi. Police arrested Rahul Siyol (39) of Koria district in Chhattisgarh, Nidhi aka Puja Verma (25) of Delhi, Priya (21) of Janakpuri and Megha Singh (25) of Mongolpuri in Delhi. Police seized nine mobile phones used in calling victims.
Questioning from the accused who speak fluent English revealed that they used to call people posing as bank officials and staff. Rahul Siyol used to forward the OTP to the mastermind of the racket who used to transfer the cash from bank account of the customer to other bank accounts. Police officials said call centre was being run for past two years. Efforts are underway to arrest the mastermind of the racket and team leader of the call centre.
