Hello Sir, Neha Sharma is talking from ICICI Bank Credit Card Department. Sir, ICICI Bank is offering you a free cast credit card, the limit of which will be provided to you up to Rs 5 lakh. Are you ready to get a credit card? One consent from you and the bank account is empty. If you are also receiving such calls, you need to be alert. Cyber fraudsters can empty your account. The Special Task Force of Uttarakhand Police has raided a similar call center operating from Haridwar and arrested a cyber thug. This cyber thug is 10th pass and is expert in defrauding educated people.
Senior Superintendent of Police STF Ayush Aggarwal said that complaints were being received about people being cheated by making fake calls in the name of credit cards. Investigation found that a similar gang is active in Sidkul area of Haridwar police station. Many mobile numbers were analyzed during the investigation. Also, transaction details of suspicious bank accounts were checked. In which it was found that in these suspicious bank accounts, lakhs of rupees are being continuously transferred from the bank accounts of different individuals from Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and other states of the country to the accounts of the gang. Transactions worth Rs 70 lakh were found in these suspicious accounts in the last few months.
While gathering information about the gang, on Monday, a team under the supervision of STF Inspector Yashpal Bisht, Inspector Dharmendra Rautela and Yadvinder Bavja raided a house in Mohalla Ramnagar, Village Rawli Mehdood, Police Station Sidcul, Haridwar and arrested the accused Vipin Pal, a native of village Arrested Pindora Jahangirpur, Police Station Jhinjhana, District Shamli. Six mobile phones, four empty mobile phone boxes, one computer monitor, one CPU, 14 debit cards, three accounting registers and scripts prepared to defraud customers were recovered from him.
This is how the fraud was being done
During interrogation, Vipin Pal told that he has been living in Haridwar since 2017. He is 10th pass and has been cheating people for many years by calling them through phone in the name of getting credit cards, insurance and various loans. There are 11 people in his gang, all of them are doing online fraud. Everyone was given different work.
The job of three members of another gang is to provide such data to the people who are to be defrauded. The accused told that with the money obtained from fraud, he had bought a two-storey house in Ramnagar Rawali Mehdood itself. To make fake calls, an office was opened in Brahmapuri market, from where the call center operates.
