jalandhar(23/07/2022): Case1. CHEATING INNOCENTS ON THE PRETEXT OF PROVIDING ‘PRADHAN MANTRI MUDRA LOAN’ AT DISCOUNTED RATES.
With the arrest of 07 accused persons, Staff of Cyber PS of North-West District busted a fake call center which was cheating innocents on pretext of providing ‘Pradhan Mantri Mudra Loan’ at discounted rates. 07 mobile phones & documents were recovered from the premises of fake call center. They mainly targeted poor people in the name of govt loan offer at discounted rate and cheated more than 150 innocents in the last one year.
Brief facts & incident details:-
A case vide FIR No. 35/22 U/s 420 IPC, PS Cyber North West was registered on the complaint of Sh. Manish R/o Ambedkar Nagar, Haider Pur, Delhi who alleged that he received a message from one unknown mobile number that he can get Pradhan Mantri (PM) Mudra Loan of Rs. 2 lacs. Thereafter, complainant contacted at the given mobile number wherein the alleged asked copy of documents on whatsApp and Rs. 2499/- as registration fee. The complainant provided his documents through whatsApp & transferred the requisite amount in given account number. Thereafter, the alleged induced the complainant to transfer Rs. 15,500/- in the name of insurance. Thereafter, alleged informed the complainant that if he does not pay insurance amount, his loan file would be cancelled. Then complainant realized that he has been duped. No loan amount was received by the complainant. The alleged unknown persons cheated innocent people on the pretext of PM Mudra Loan.
In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 35/22 u/s 420 IPC was registered at PS Cyber North-West and investigation was taken up.
Team & Investigation:-
Considering the nature of incident and sensitivity of the case, a dedicated team led by Inspr. Vijendra Kumar, SHO/ PS Cyber comprising of SI Vinod Kumar, ASI Roshana Lal, HC Manish, HC Sohan and W/HC Ashu was constituted under the close supervision of ACP/Operations and overall supervision of the undersigned. They were briefed properly & assigned to nab the accused persons involved in this case.
During investigation, an enquiry was conducted into the matter and details from concerned beneficiary bank were obtained and thoroughly scrutinized. Sources were deployed to gather local intelligence. Recce of several locations were conducted to get the clue about accused persons. Further, on the basis of inputs and collected detailed information, the team raided a location in Sector-17, Rohini area where a call center was found running. Seven persons were apprehended from there, as their details are above mentioned.
During investigation, 07 mobile phones and documents were recovered from their possession at the spot. The SIM cards and mobile phones which were used to call/cheat the present complainant, are also recovered from their possession.
During their sustained interrogation, it was found that accused Sandeep Kumar is the main mastermind and he hired others for running this fake call center. They mainly targeted poor people in the name of govt. loan offer at discounted rate and cheated more than 150 innocents in the last one year.
Modus Operandi:-
Investigation of case revealed that main accused Sandeep Kumar had been working in a call center as tele-caller since 2 years, where he got the experience and decided to start his own call center. He hired five females as tele-callers on a salary of Rs. 9000/- and one of his relative namely, Sumit on a salary of Rs. 30,000/-. Main accused took a property on a rent of Rs. 19,000/- in Sector-17, Rohini area and started this call-center. They used to send bulk messages on random numbers, with lucrative offers in the name of ‘Pradhan Mantri Mudra Loan’.
They used to collect documents i.e. Aadhar card, PAN card and cancelled cheques of the innocent persons on whatsapp, on the pretext of providing them loans. Thereafter, they used to get the amount transferred in the name of clearance fee, registration fee or taxes.
They mainly targeted poor people in the name of govt. loan offer at discounted rate and cheated more than 150 innocents in the last one year.
Further efforts are being made to trace their possible involvements in other complaints also and their accounts details are further being scrutinized.
Details of Accused Arrested:-
(1) Sandeep Kumar R/o District- Hissar, Haryana Age 29 years (Role: Main Mastermind/ Owner of this fake call-center, who manages overall management & monetary transactions)
(2) Sumit R/o District- Jind, Haryana Age-32 Years (Role: Tele-caller)
(3) Rakhi R/o Bhalaswa Dairy Age 22 years (Role: Tele-caller)
(4) Jyoti R/o Ambedkar Nagar Haiderpur Age 24 years (Role: Tele-caller)
(5) Jyoti R/o Samaypur Badli Age-22 years (Role: Tele-caller)
(6) Manisha R/o Samaypur Badli Age- 20 years (Role: Tele-caller)
(7) Kajal R/o Samaypur Badli Age-20 years. (Role: Tele-caller)
Further investigation of the case is in progress.
source: (USHA RANGNANI) IPS
Dy. Commissioner of Police
North West District, Delhi
case2.FAKE CALL CENTRE DUPING FOREIGNNATIONALS IN THE NAME OF MICROSOFT TECHNICAL SUPPORT BUSTED:
With the arrest of 6 people ISC/Crime Branch has busted a fake international call centre in Paschim Vihar, Delhi involved in duping US citizens on the pretext of providing them with technical support from Microsoft.
INFORMATION AND RAID
On 18.07.2022, police received information that a fake call centre was being run in the Paschim Vihar area of Delhi which dupes the US Nationals on the pretext of providing technical support to the users of Microsoft and Apple. A dedicated team was formed comprising of Inspr. Satendra Mohan, Insp. Mahipal, SI Imran, SI Surender Rana, ASI Yatander, ASI Jaikumar, ASI Vikas, ASI Sukender and HC Navin under the supervision of ACP/ISC Ramesh Lamba to verify the information and collect details. Technical analysis was done with respect to the mobile and the location of the accused was confirmed. On this, at about 11.30 PM, a raid was conducted at the premises and the accused persons were found operating a fake call centre from where calls were being made to unsuspecting people in foreign countries and they were being cheated by the accused who were pretending to be from Microsoft Inc. Total 7 laptops, 7 headphones, 7 mobile phones, ₹ 7.10 Lacs cash, 1 internet router and 1 switch were recovered from the possession of accused persons. Accordingly, a case vide FIR No. 143/22 dt 19.07.2021 was registered u/s 419/420/120 B/34 IPC and 66(C) & 66(D) I.T.Act in PS Crime Branch. All relevant devices have been seized.
INTERROGATION AND MODUS OPERANDI
The main accused, Abhishek Chhabra was running this fake call-center for last 01 month and is a commerce graduate. The victims of the scam are people residing in the foreign countries. The accused send pop-ups to the computers of such unsuspecting people that their system has been compromised and they should call at the given number for technical assistance by Microsoft. When the victim calls, the call comes to this fake call center through “X-Lite” app. The accused pretend to be from Microsoft technical support assistance team and induce her/him to give remote access of their computer to them through application like “Ultra Viewer” or “Any desk.” After that, they tell the victim that several malicious programs including malwares, spywares, etc. have been found in their system, when in reality, there is no such issue.
They further “caution” the victim that their banking credentials might be compromised if immediate remedial steps are not taken. The victim, fearing for her/his financial security, agrees to pay the amount as asked for by the accused. The payment is made in gift coupon i.e. Target, Google Play etc and the same is being encashed through grey market. The said encasher is called as “BLOCKER”. The “BLOCKER” sales the coupon and buys Crypto-currency from the money. Later they encashed it by selling Crypto for cash. Upon receiving the payment, the accused persons pretend to clean up the malwares, virus etc. from the victims system. All this while, the victim is under the impression that he/she is getting legitimate technical support from Microsoft Inc. As per the interrogation of accused and data recovered from the systems, a total amount of more than ₹ 1 crore has been cheated by the accused in a similar fashion from victims based in the US in last one month. The staff who convert maximum calls in money is called as “Banker” that means he has specialization in this illegal trade. The recovered cash was kept by Abhishek from the cheated money to distribute among staff as their incentive, hence the same was seized.
PROFILE OF ACCUSED PERSON
1. Abhishek Chhabra is a commerce graduate and he is a close friend of Micky. To earn quick money he joined hands with Micky and started fake call center.
2. Rahul Gupta is studied upto 12th standard. He came in contact with Abhishek through an online consultancy service. After few days training he started making and receiving calls from fake call center.
3. Pushkar Raj is studied upto 12th standard and also having diploma of Music Production. He was in need of money so he wish to join a call center. Then he came in contact with Abhishek through an online consultancy service. After few days training he started making and receiving calls from fake call center.
4. Aditya Dhankar is studied upto 12th standard. He came in contact with Abhishek through an online consultancy service. After few days training he started making and receiving calls from fake call center.
5. Arpit Chaudhary is studied upto 12th standard. Earlier he was working in an online consultancy company in Gurugram. He came in contact with Abhishek through an online consultancy service. After few days training he started making and receiving calls from fake call center.
6. Ashish Vaswani is studied upto 12th standard. He came in contact with Abhishek through an online consultancy service. After few days training he started making and receiving calls from fake call center.
Further investigation of the case is under progress.
source: (AMIT GOEL) IPS
Deputy Commissioner of Police
Crime-IV, Delhi
case3.CYBER CHEAT WHO DUPED SENIOR CITIZENS ON THE PRETEXT OF HUGE BONUS ON MATURITY OF INSURANCE POLICY ARRESTED:
The staff of PS Greater Kailash, South District has done commendable work by arresting a cyber cheat namely Virender Sahni who duped innocent senior citizens on the pretext of providing huge bonus on maturity of insurance policies in a case FIR No. 000194/22 u/s 379/419/420 IPC and 66-D IT Act PS Greater Kailash. Upon his instance, 01 luxury car, Diamond jewellery approximately Rs. 15 Lacs, Investment of approximately Rs. 25 Lacs in shares, approximately Rs. 2.5 Lacs deposited in bank Account, 04 ATMs, 01 Mac book & 01 I-phone pro max 13 have been recovered.
BRIEF OF CASE REPORTED/INCIDENT: –
On 27.06.22, a senior citizen (retired professor), aged 82 years R/o Pamposh Enclave, Greater Kailash reported at PS Greater Kailash that a person contacted him telephonically in 2019 who impersonated himself as Sandeep Tyagi, DGM, RBI, Lucknow and lured him that his insurance policies have been taken up for maturity and he will get a total amount Rs. 90 Lakh in return. He further asked to pay Rs 1.5 Lakh as processing file charges etc.. Hence, the complainant had transferred the amount in the account of the alleged person. Thereafter, he kept on asking for more money on one pretext or the other (in the of bonus, fixed returns, maturity returns, health insurance of whole family etc..) and thus an amount approx. Rs.90 Lakh was taken away by him. After that, when the complainant sensed that he was cheated, he reported the matter. Hence, on the statement of the complainant, a case vide FIR No. 000194/22 u/s 379/419/420 IPC & 66-D IT Act was registered in PS Greater Kailash and investigation was taken up.
TEAM, INVESTIGATION & ARREST:-
Keeping in view the sensitivity of the case, a team comprising of SI Anil, HC Lalit, HC Surender, HC Sandeep and Ct Nikunj led by Inspr Ajit Kumar SHO/Greater Kailash under overall supervision of Shri Manu Himanshu, ACP/C.R. Park was formed to investigate the case and arrest the accused person involved in the above crime.
During the course of investigation, the team started working relentlessly on various angles. The complainant was enquired thoroughly to get more details. Further, details of the accused person were collected i.e. mobile number and account number in which the money was transferred by the complainant. On checking the CAFs of mobile number, the address was found fake and the documents used in opening the Bank account were also found on fake address. However, the team continuously analysed the available Bank Account statement at length and records, transactions, CDRs and IPDRs of mobile numbers. The team collected all the CCTV footage of several ATMs where the money was withdrew and thoroughly analysed it. The team started working on each and every aspects of the case. Hence, all possible technical details about alleged persons were obtained and sources were deployed to track them. The efforts of the team bore fruits when the accused was identified. Through surveillance and technical analysis, the location of the accused was zeroed down. On 18.07.2022, a raid was conducted and the accused was apprehended who was later on identified as Virender Sahni. He confessed to the above crime and upon his instance, the below mentioned recovery was made.
PROFILE OF ACCUSED ARRESTED:-
Virender Sahni S/o Heeranath Sahni R/o Masjid Moth, Greater Kailash, Delhi. Age 32 years. He is a permanent native of V.P.O. Sangrampur, PS Khajni, District Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. He has studied upto 12th standard. He is very notorious and sharp cyber fraudster. He has vast knowledge of funds transfer through online banking and wallet as well as how to drain out cheated amount without any trail. He has good skill of fraudsters’ social engineering. He enjoys luxury life and prefer to reside in Posh colonies.
INTERROGATION :-
During the course of interrogation, the accused Virender Sahni disclosed that he came to Delhi in 2008 and started working as a SIM card seller of Reliance Mobile. Thereafter, he joined Net Ambit (a data collection agency for various Insurance companies) where he started working in its Calling Centre. At Net Ambit, he learnt calling skills and how to gather personal information of a person including his various insurance policies and investments. In 2014, he left Net Ambit and joined another same job profile in India Infoline. In 2015, he along with his 02-03 office colleagues started own work of calling clients, collecting their insurance as well as saving details and making their profile files for cheating. For this purpose, at first they collected data from Net Ambit and India Infotech. They used to procure mobile SIMs activated on the basis of fake addresses as well as Bank accounts opened on the basis of fake addresses for calling and to drawn-out cheated amount. They first started operating from a mini office situated at Laxmi Nagar, Delhi area. Sometimes, they used to procure bank account kits of their own victims on pretext of getting deposited their bonus in victim’s self account. Once, they got account kits, they used to change its PIN and mobile number through online Net banking by getting OTPs details from their clients.
He further stated that in 2016, there were disputes between his partners and he separated his work and started working alone. He also contacted a person namely Desi Razu Sundra Shiva Rao, aged 72 years from Bengaluru (business man) from whom he had earlier cheated to the tune of Rs 50 lacs in a similar fashion and when Desi Razu asked for his money the alleged procured all his bank details and even got his own mobile number linked to his account as he took his ATM card also. Thereafter, he contacted one Inderbadan Zaved Bhai Patel from Vadodara Gujrat to whom he cheated approx. a tune of Rs. 20 lacs. After that, he cheated a Retired professor (the complainant in instant case).
MODUS OPERANDI:-
The alleged after alluring the elderly aged persons used to gather information regarding their insurance policies and savings. Thereafter, they used to lure for 10 to 20 times maturity/bonus benefits on total savings of their targeted victims. When they gained over faith of their targeted victims they asked them to deposit initially a complex figure amount in different figures such as Rs. 1,76,524/- as process file so that their demand could reflect genuine demand.
RECOVERY :-
1. 01 luxury car.
2. Diamond jewellery approximately Rs. 15 Lacs.
3. Investment of approximately Rs.25 Lacs in shares.
4. ATM Card of Desi Razu.
5. Amount approximately Rs. 2.5 Lacs deposited in Bank Account.
6. 04 Bank ATMs.
7. 01 Apple Mac book.
8. 01 I-phone 13
source: (BENITA MARY JAIKER) IPS
Deputy Commissioner of Police,
South District, New Delhi.
case4. DUPED INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF REVIVING DUMP INSURANCE POLICIES, NEW INSURANCE POLICIES AND PROVIDING LOAN ON THE INSURANCE POLICIES: A team of Eastern Range-1 consisting of ASI Governor Singh, ASI Yogender, ASI Vinay Tyagi, HC Amit Kumar, HC Surya, HC Maha Singh and Ct. Anil led by Insp. Gulshan Yadav under the supervision of Inspr. Satish Rana and Sh. Rohitash Kumar, ACP/ER-I, Crime Branch of Delhi Police has busted an interstate gang of cheats and arrested
(1) Md. Shafez S/o Gulam Mohammad R/o H.No. 2559, Gali Phool Wali, Baradari, Balli Maran, Delhi, Age 32 years
(2) Rahul Mittal S/o Hari Ram Mittal R/o Plot No. 68, E-Block, Gali No..16, Bharat Vihar, Begumpur Extn., Delhi, Age- 32 years
(3) Sujeet Verma S/o Ravinder Kumar R/o E-18, Bharat Vihar Colony, Begumpur Extn., Delhi, Age-29 years
(4) Manoj Kumar S/o Sh. Vijay Kumar R/o H.No. 40/18, Gali No. 11, Block B, IP Colony, Delhi, Age-32 years
(5) Mohd. Wasim S/o Late Mohd. Iqbal R/o H.No. 1054, Bazar Chitli Kabar, Jama Masjid, Delhi Age-32 years
With the arrest of these five accused, staff of Eastern Range-1 busted an interstate gang of cheats which was cheating innocents Indian citizens in the name of reviving dump insurance policies, new insurance policies and providing loan on the insurance policies. 7 mobile phones, one laptop and documents were recovered from the accused persons. They mainly targeted people in the name of revival of dump policies. All the five accused persons have been arrested vide FIR No. 141/22 dated 15.07.2022 u/s 419/420/467/468/471/120B/34 IPC, PS Crime Branch, Delhi.
OPERATION:-
Secret information was received through secret source to ASI Yoginder, ER-I, Crime Branch that a person in the name of Rahul Mittal is cheating innocent people in Delhi and other parts of country in the name of reviving dump insurance policies, opening new insurance policies and providing loan on the insurance policies. It was also informed that Rahul Mittal had opened fake accounts through his associates in which money is deposited and withdrawal. He has cheated a number of persons/all over India on this pretext of insurance policies. He also arranges fictitious SIM cards which were used to make calls to the targeted citizens. They also keep record of targeted persons in their Laptop and mobile phones. It was also informed that they are operating from somewhere in Rohini area of Delhi from where calls are made. This information was further developed by a dedicated team of ER-1, Crime Branch.
On 14.07.22, specific input was received that one of the member of this racket namely Shafez would come to meet someone near Delite Cinema, Dariya Ganj, and is also carrying forged documents, which are used to open accounts used for transferring cheated amount. Hence, a raid was done and Shafez was apprehended. He was interrogated and from him possession forged document i.e. Pan Card in the name of Pawan Kumar bearing photo of accused Shafez was recovered, several ATM cards were also recovered, mobile phone was also recovered wherein incriminatory Whatsapp chats between Shafez and other accused were found. He was operating an account at Axis Bank in the name Deep Chand Rai. At the instance of Shafez, accused Rahul Mittal was apprehended from Rithala Metro Station, where meeting of both these persons was already fixed. He was interrogated. From his possession one mobile phone which was being used to call the targeted persons was recovered and at his instance one more person accused Sujeet mentioned above was apprehended from E-18, Bharat Vihar, Delhi from where mobile phone, laptop used in commission of crime were also recovered. All these accused were interrogated at length and were arrested in aforesaid case. During investigation, two more accused Manoj and Waseem were also arrested during P/C remand.
MODUS OPERANDI:-
Accused Rahul Mittal, kingpin of this racket used to work in a call center, in Noida, UP, which deals in calling the customers for purchasing insurance policies. In this call center, he worked for 5/6 months and then left the job. There he came to know the manner, how the customers are dealt and how they are induced to purchase policies. He got data of customers’ i.e. mobile numbers and their policy details. He then himself started calling these customers and through his associates Sujit and others from a room in Begumpur area. He used to make calls to the persons from the data he had, posing himself as executive of various insurance companies and lured them to purchase new policies on which he would provide them loan ten times of the policy amount. He proposed them that the maturity amount would be taken by company and loan amount which would be given in advance would be credited to the customers and for that purpose he would extract money from them. The innocent needy persons would find themselves trapped in his net and when they paid money for getting loan he stopped calling them and changed his mobile number. He also extracted money from customers who were unable to continue their policies due to some financial problem that he could help them to get their money back and in that lieu also he induced them to credit money in the accounts maintained by him. He arranged fictitious bank accounts through Shafez and Manoj. Shafez for the purpose of opening accounts got prepared fake Adhar card and Pan Card through Waseem. Waseem was preparing fake Aadhar card by arranging biometric machine through his contacts and using fake Id proof. Interrogation of Waseem has revealed that biometric machines are used illegally and are moved from static locations for the purpose of making fake Adhar. ₹ 2500-15000 are charged for this purpose from the persons who need fake Adhar. This gang has cheated the innocent persons trapped in their net worth crores of rupees in last 4-5 years.
RECOVERY:
• Cash ₹ 2.71 Lacs recovered.
• Seven mobile phones
• One laptop.
• Two Debit Card
• Fake Pan Card and Adhar Car
• Five fake accounts having Approx. ₹ 1, 50,000/ freeze.
Further investigation of the case is in progress.
source: (AMIT GOEL), IPS
DY. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE:
CRIME BRANCH: DELHI.