Gang which carried out cyber frauds worth Rs 3 crores busted, three arrested

Kanpur: The crime branch busted a gang of cyber frauds who used to commit fraud in the name of depositing insurance premium.
The gang has so far duped nearly 1,000 people of about Rs 3 crores from call centers in Chandausi and Delhi.
The crime branch has arrested three persons and recovered the data of many people and laptops, including 19 mobiles.
One such person who was duped Shatrughan Mahato, a resident of Kalyanpur area, had taken a policy from Exide Life Insurance in 2019. On September 14, he recieved a call to pay the insurance premium. The caller said to get a 10 percent discount on payment of premium. On this, Mahato deposited Rs 47,950 of the installment online. When he asked for a receipt, the caller denied and instead demanded more money for issuing the same.
After this, he realized he was duped by a gang of fraudsters. Later, he lodged an FIR with the Kalyanpur police station.
Subsequently, the case was taken over by the crime branch.
According to DCP Crime Salman Taj Patil, when the investigation started, it was found that the gang was operating from Chandausi.
Atul, a resident of Gov village, was zeroed -in and arrested later.
During interrogation, it came to fore that the call centre was operating from Badaun.
On the basis of a tip-off provided by Atul, the police arrested another convict Darshan Srivastava, a resident of Bhojpur, Badaun. Acting further on the basis of the tip-off, police also arrested one Raghuveer Kumar, a resident of Janki Vihar Prem Nagar Delhi, who was operating the call center. Raghuveer is basically a native of Gorakhpur (UP).
DCP told reporters that Raghuveer has done MCA.Earlier, he had worked at a call center in Delhi. All the young women were kept at the call center who used to trap people.
Atul used to look after financial dealings.
“How many people were called, how much money generated, how much was spent, Atul used to maintain the ledger pertaining to all this. Atul used to keep 50 percent of the earnings from the centers with himself.
Nearly, 19 mobiles, one laptop, 28 ATM cards of different banks and data of one thousand people have been recovered from the accused,” said DCP crime, adding that details of 24 bank accounts have been found with the accused.
“Information has been received about some people who had taken Rs 5-6,000 from the accused to get their account used,” he said.
“The accused used to contact the agents by procuring the numbers from a local search engine 'Just Dial' and deal with the agents to get the data of the insurance company.. They used to get data for Rs one or two per person,” said DCP crime.
“With that data, they used to get other information from the website of the insurance company. After that they used to call the gullible victims and cheat them,” he further added.
DCP Crime said that about 20 girls were kept in the call center in Delhi who used to contact people over the phone.
“They have been kept on a salary of Rs 6-8,000 per month,” he said, adding that what other roles they had played in connivance with the fraudsters is being verified