Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The city Crime Branch raided a house and arrested six people, including a woman, for running a fake call centre to dupe people on the pretext of giving them distributorship of a herbal product. Interestingly, the accused were running the call centre after locking the front gate in order to mislead the police. The accused allegedly confessed to duping more than 100 people—most of them from out of the state—so far.
Additional DCP (Crime) Guru Prasad Parashar said that a person from Tamil Nadu lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch that he had been duped of Rs 30,000 by some people on the pretext of giving him area dealership of a company named Herbal Mart a few days ago. On the instructions of senior officials, the Fraud Investigation Cell of the Crime Branch started an investigation and found that the accused had posed under another name and taken money from the complaint on the pretext of giving him a good commission.
The Crime Branch team checked the bank account details of the company and found that Herbal Mart’s owner was a woman, named Shreyanshi, and her accomplices used to dupe people in the Pardeshipura area. She and another director, Asit Paik, had shifted their office to Kalindi Gold City in the Banganga area. After receiving the information, a Crime Branch team raided the house and arrested six people, including Asit Paik of Bengali Square, Sreyanshi Sharma of Kalindi Gold, Vijay Patnare of Banganga, Akash Vishwakarma of Bhanwarkuan, Nitesh Gurjar of Banganga and Pradeep Singh Thakur of Bhanwarkuan.
The accused allegedly informed the police that the director had been running the fake call centre in the city for more than two years by changing their address within 3 to 4 months in the city. They used to call people from fake SIM cards by obtaining data of the customers. They allegedly confessed to duping more than 100 people of lakhs of rupees on the lure of providing distributorship of the company. The police are investigating the case and collecting information about the online fraud victims.
Fourteen mobile phones, 32 SIM cards, 1 laptop, 6 bank passbooks, 4 cheques, 12 ATM cards, some cash and customers’ data were recovered from the accused and they were booked under various sections of the IPC by the Banganga police.
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