Fake call centre busted in Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad June 8 (IANS) Ghaziabad police on Thursday arrested a fraudster who was running a fake call centre to mint money by making false promises about providing a job with Indigo airlines.

Superintendent of Police (City) Akash Tomar said that he received a mail from Pranav Tiwari a resident of Allahabad complaining that he received a mail from recruitment12@gmail.com followed by a phone call from mobile number 8377834952 providing a job in Indigo airlines.

The caller asked him to deposit Rs 2 000 in saving account number 36700145988 in State Bank of India as file processing charges. Tiwari deposited the said amount.

On Tuesday he again received a call asking for an amount of Rs 6 500 to be deposited in the same account number. Becoming suspicious he refused to deposit the money and mailed a complaint to Tomar.

On Tomar s instructions police in Khoda area registered a complaint under Sections 420 and 466 of IPC and Section 66 of the IT Act.

Acting on a tip off the police raided a hideout in Deepak Vihar near Vishal Mega Mart and discovered that a call centre was being run from there. They arrested Santosh Kumar a resident of Vaishali district in Uttar Pradesh while his accomplice fled the spot.

The police recovered eight mobile phones including the one from which the scam calls were made. A laptop its charger and a register containing 84 names for their next victims were also recovered.

Khoda police is conducting raids in Noida to nab the absconding suspect Tomar said.

--IANS
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