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New Delhi, December 3
In a major operation, the Cyberabad Police busted two fake call centres in New Delhi and Noida and arrested 28 people for allegedly duping citizens by posing as employees of a state bank and an app-based loan platform.
The Cyberabad police teams arrived in Delhi NCR and carried out massive raids at the fake call centre in Delhi.
The arrested accused were wanted in 195 cases across the country out of which several were reported in in Cyberabad Commissionerate.
According to the police, the gang pretended to be bank employees and cheated citizens to the tune of crores of rupees.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Reveendra stated after collecting the bank's credit cardholders data, contacted them using spoofing call applications in the guise of verification and to issue new cards, this gang cheated them by making the customers share OTPs with them from which they made online transactions.
The police took up investigation after a complainant from here approached them stating that he was duped of Rs 1.64 lakh from the callers under the pretext of issuing new credit cards.
In another operation, the police busted fake loan call centre racket operating from Noida that was involved in 27 cases across different states of Telangana.
The officials said that in this fraud, the accused, after collecting the details of loan applicants, called them by posing as employees from lending platforms and cheated them to the tune of lakhs of rupees.
A resident had filed a complaint that the fraudsters called him informing that he is eligible for a personal loan of Rs five lakh and collected Rs 2.17 lakh from him for different charges such as processing fee among other charges.
In both the cases, the arrested 14 accused in each case who belong to UP and Bihar including women who were running a well oiled racket of fraud.
