Call centre cheated people with lottery ruse, 36 held

Noida: Another fake call centre was busted in Noida and 36 people were arrested during a raid by the special task force on Friday. The call centre was running from a building in Sector 10 for the past six months. The accused would cheat people by claiming they had won cash prizes in a lucky draw and take a certain amount of money from them as registration fee.
According to officers of the STF, the three main accused are Dilip Kumar Saroj from Sant Ravidas Nagar, Akhilesh Kumar, a resident of Badohi district, and Kamlesh Saroj, who is from Jaunpur. They had been living in a rented accommodation in New Ashok Nagar in New Delhi.

SSP Abhishek Singh said they had received a complaint from a Varanasi resident who had allegedly been cheated of Rs 2 lakh by the fake centre.|

“During interrogation, the accused told police they had opened fake accounts in various banks in the name of different companies. They took SIM cards with forged papers and offered people cash prizes against lucky draws. They would ask the victims to transfer an amount of money as registration fee in their e-wallets. Once people gave the money, the accused would snap all contacts with the victims. In a day, they would collect anything between Rs 15 lakh and Rs 20 lakh from them,” Singh said.

“They have been cheating people for a long time in Delhi-NCR. After a few months, the accused would change their office location and open another in a different city,” he said. “We recovered a huge amount of data of customers of online shopping, insurance, etc. This data is of people from different parts of the country,” STF officer added.

“The STF also recovered Rs 5,600 in cash, three computer sets, three ATM cards, stamps of different fake companies and five cheque books,” he said.