CHEATING CASE INVOLVING RS 70,000/- SOLVED. ACCUSED USED TO TAKE ONLINE TEST & TELEPHONIC INTERVIEWS OF VICTIMS. THEY EVEN USED TO ISSUE FAKE JOB OFFER LETTERS. MAIN MASTERMIND IS A B.TECH ENGINEER. 10 MOBILE PHONES, 01 LAPTOP, 07 ATM CARDS, SIM CARDS, PASSBOOKS/ CHEQUE BOOKS & DOCUMENTS RECOVERED. THEY CHEATED MORE THAN 250 IN LAST ONE YEAR.
Face2News/New Delhi
With the arrest of 04 accused persons namely, (1) Amir Zeesham R/o Sec-7 Dwarka, Delhi, Age-31 years, (2) Rahul Singh Rajawat R/o Sec-7, Dwarka, Delhi, Age-25 years, (3) Rekha R/o Narela, Delhi, Age-25 years and (4) Shivam Sharma R/o Noida, UP, Age-23 years, staff of PS Cyber/ North-West busted a fake call-center & solved a cheating case involving Rs.70,000/- registered vide FIR No.06/23 U/s 420/34 IPC and recovered 10 mobile phones, 01 laptop, 07 ATM cards, SIM cards, passbooks/ cheque books & documents from premises of said fake Call-Center in sector-7, Dwarka, Delhi.
Police said, on 03.01.2023, a complaint was received in PS Cyber/ North-West, in which complainant namely, Manish Gupta, Age-21 years R/o Shakurpur, Delhi alleged that while searching for job, he applied for a job on web portal. After some days, he received a phone call and he was offered a job of accountant in HDFC Bank. T
he alleged asked Rs. 1500/- as registration fee and he transferred the same. Thereafter, his online test & telephonic interview was conducted by alleged persons and offer letter was sent to the complainant through email. The complainant was induced to transfer amount on different pretext, with the promise that all amount would be refunded after one year of his job i.e. (1) Rs. 6580/- for laptop charges, (2) Rs. 10,500/- for opening salary bank account, (3) 15,500/- for health insurance, (4) 16,500/- for dress & shoes and (5) 18,500/- for domain ID etc.
The complainant transferred the said amount to their bank account. Further, the complainant received a call of alleged to transfer Rs. 22,500/- for dispatching parcel etc, then the complainant got doubt and realized that he was duped of Rs. 69,080/- by unknown persons on the pretext of providing job.
Accordingly, a case vide FIR No. 06/23 u/s 420/34 IPC was registered in PS Cyber/ North-West and investigation was taken up.
Considering the gravity of offence & nature of incident, a dedicated team led by Insp. Vijender, SHO/ PS Cyber, comprising of Insp. KK Jha, SI Vinod, ASI Roshan Lal, HC Mohit, HC Manish & W/Ct Pushpa was constituted under close supervision of Sh. Pankaj Singh, ACP/ Ops and overall supervision of the undersigned. The team was briefed properly and tasked to solve the case & nab the culprits at the earliest.
The team analysed trail of transferred amount and gathered details of beneficiary bank accounts. The collected information was scrutinized and technical surveillance was mounted. Further, sources were deployed to gather local intelligence. On the basis of information gathered & details, a raid was conducted in Sector-7, Dwarka, Delhi, where 03 persons (including a female) were found running a Call-Center.
On enquiry, they were identified as (1) Amir Zeesham R/o Sec-7 Dwarka, Delhi, Age-31 years, (2) Rahul Singh Rajawat R/o Sec-7, Dwarka, Delhi, Age-25 years, (3) Rekha R/o Narela, Delhi, Age-25 years. Further, 10 mobile phones, 01 laptop, SIM cards, ATM cards, Passbook, cheque books & documents were recovered from premises of said Call-Center. On verification, the same were found connected in instant case. Accordingly, all 03 accused persons were apprehended.
During further investigation, it was revealed that accused Amir Zeesham & accused Rahul Rajawat are partners of this Call-Center with the profit share of 50% each. They took a premises on rent of Rs. 15000/- in Sec-7, Dwarka and started their Call-Center since last 06 months. They hired accused Rekha as tele-caller on monthly salary of Rs. 20,000/- and she also arranged Bank accounts & SIM cards of unknown persons on commission basis.Mr. Jitendra Meena, IPS, DCP, North-West, said, during their sustained interrogation, they confessed their involvement in the case and further disclosed that they used to operate their Call-Center in Ramesh Nagar, Uttam Nagar area earlier for 06 months. Thereafter, they shifted in Sec-7, Dwarka. Accused Amir Zeesham is main mastermind, who is a B.Tech engineer in computer science. He used to work in a company and there, he learnt techniques of hiring new recruits for various job profiles. His salary was around Rs. 60,000/- but he was not satisfied. He wanted to earn more money and therefore, left his job in year 2021 and colloborated with Rahul Rajawat to start their Call-Center. He met Rahul through a common friend.
On their instance, another accused namely, Shivam Sharma R/o Noida, UP, Age-23 years was apprehended, who provided his bank account to them, in which cheated amount in instant case was received. Accused Shivam used to take Rs 10,000/- as commission for each transaction in his bank account.
Mr. Jitendra Meena, IPS, DCP, North-West, said, during their sustained interrogation, they confessed their involvement in the case and further disclosed that they used to operate their Call-Center in Ramesh Nagar, Uttam Nagar area earlier for 06 months. Thereafter, they shifted in Sec-7, Dwarka. Accused Amir Zeesham is main mastermind, who is a B.Tech engineer in computer science. He used to work in a company and there, he learnt techniques of hiring new recruits for various job profiles. His salary was around Rs. 60,000/- but he was not satisfied. He wanted to earn more money and therefore, left his job in year 2021 and colloborated with Rahul Rajawat to start their Call-Center. He met Rahul through a common friend.
They further disclosed that they cheated more than 250 in last 01 year by offering different kind of Jobs in MNCs. They collected data through various Job sites and called them through hired tele-caller namely, Rekha. They first used to check documents and then took online test. After that, they took telephonic interview of candidates and accordingly, offered them jobs as per their qualifications. They further induced them to pay amount in the name of verification fees, insurance, account opening, dress, accessories etc. After receiving amount, they used to switch off the phone and changed their SIM cards. They disclosed that they used to earn around Rs. 3 lakhs per month by cheating innocent job seekers
Further efforts are being made to trace their possible involvement in other complaints also.