Delhi Police South District arrest 25 who cheated US nationals through impersonation
New Delhi, April 2
The Delhi Police South District arrested 25 persons while busting a fake call centre from Kehar Estate in Said-ul-Ajaib. The accused allegedly made fraud calls to US national in the pretext of giving government grants.
The accused were identified as Roshan Singh (35) from Kishangarh in Delhi, Kamal Das (31) from Safadarjung Enclave in Delhi and 23 others including 12 females.
DCP South, Atul Thakur stated the accused persons used to make fraud calls to US nationals by impersonating themselves as foreigners on the pretext of providing US Govt. grants through membership fee for unemployed persons and specially abled persons.
The police further said that after receiving the membership fee, they stopped attending their calls.
The Mehrauli police station had received information about the suspicious activities of the alleged call centre based on which the South district formed a special team to unearth the racket.
The police raided the spot where 13 males and 12 females were found to be working on the computer systems and making suspicious calls to foreign nationals by using internet calling.
The police said that a total 25 computer systems and some routers were found to be used for calling through internet with the help of headphones. During the course of enquiry, it was revealed that the fake call centre was headed by one Kamal Dass who was also present at the spot.
The police added that, during the further inquiry, Kamal Dass disclosed that he used to get information of the US Citizens from his sources and he further passed the information to his employees. The employees used to call the US Citizens by impersonating themselves as US Nationals and asked them to pay membership fees on the pretext of providing them US Govt. Grants for unemployed persons and handicapped persons.
The police further stated that the innocent US citizens paid them the membership fees and then, they stopped picking up their calls. The employee of the call centre used various softwares viz. Hangout & VICIdial, Voip Accounts Etc.to cheat the US nationals and in order to get the payment, they asked the victims to purchase Google Play Card, Ebay Gift Cards, Amazon Gift Cards etc. and then they were asked them to share the coupon code to encash the said cards.
They used to later send these coupon codes to their other sources and in return they received amount in INR through bank transfer and cash payments. By this act, they used to make wrongful gain to themselves and wrongful loss to US citizens, officials added.
The police are further investigating the case
