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In another breakthrough under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, SP, PS-CC, UT, Chandigarh and supervision Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/PS-CC & IT UT,Chandigarh, the Police Station Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh busted a racket of online job fraud which was running from Noida and four accused arrested in this case. They are running a high tech call centre with Portable Landline phones, wifi, desktop in C-59, B- Block, Sector 63, Noida, UP.
They are cheating people all over India through phone calls for providing the job in banking sectors and other reputed companies. In this regard Case FIR No. 25 dated 29.08.2022 U/S 419, 420, 120B IPC PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, was registered.
The accused identified as Pankaj S/o Devraj R/o VPO Badruddin Nagar Nanu, Teh Sardhana, District Meerut (Utter Pradesh)- Age 24 Years, studied upto B.com. He opened 6 bank account on his name and give to Arun Tyagi for cheating. He took INR 8000/- per account and 5% of the cheated amount.
Arun Tyagi S/o Vipin Kumar R/o C-114/1, Shardapuri, Phase 2, Kanker Khera, Meerut, UP Age 25 Years, Qualfication-B.com. He took account from Pankaj and provide to Alok Kumar for cheating.
He took INR 15000/- from Alok Kumar for providing account out of which he gave INR 8000/- to Pankaj.
Mrinal Sharma S/o Inder Bhusan Sharma R/o C-297, Gali No 16, Shahdara, Delhi, 110032, Age 26 Years Qualification- 12. He works in call centre as a Team Leader with Alok Kumar. Mrinal was doing job in another call centre before joining this job fraud scam. He speaks fluent English and use to satisfy the customer Alok Kumar S/o Rajpal Singh R/o Village Bahrambadh, Teh Hanspur, Distt Amroha, UP Age 33 Years Qualification – BA. He is the main culprits in this game and running call centre.
CASE HISTORY: The present case has been registered on the complaint of a girl R/o Ram Darbar, Ind. Area Phase-II, Chandigarh, in which she alleged that she uploaded her resume on naukari.com for job and in this regard, she received a call regarding job and the caller said that they were calling from Naukari.com.
Further the caller asked her for the process fees for making a profile of amounting Rs. 1900/- and the same would be refunded after interview. On the allurement by caller, she transferred Rs. 1900/- in Equitas Small Finance Bank A/c 100040135610. After that they again asked for Rs. 5,000/- and more money for documents verification, profile activation, legal departments fee, but she refused to give the same.
The callers were calling her and said that all the amounts would be refunded and on their allurement, she transferred the amount. After transfer the money, she sent the screen shots of transactions to WhatsApp No. 9598170718.(SUBHEAD)
In this way, she deposited Rs. 90,610/- in the above said account on the pretext of providing job, but, neither she was provided job, nor the money was refunded, and she was defrauded.
During investigation on the basis of information collected from various sources, the accused persons Pankaj S/o Devraj R/o VPO Badruddin Nagar Nanu, Teh Sardhana, District Meerut (Utter Pradesh)- Age 24 Years, Arun Tyagi S/o Vipin Kumar R/o C-114/1, Shardapuri, Phase 2, Kanker Khera, Meerut, UP Age 25 Years, Mrinal Sharma S/o Inder Bhusan Sharma R/o C- 297, Gali No 16, Shahdara, Delhi, 110032, Age 26 Years & Alok Kumar S/o Rajpal Singh R/o Village Bahrambadh, Teh Hanspur, Distt Amroha, UP Age 33 Years were arrested. Further, the investigation of the said case is going on.
MODUS OPRTANDI: The modus operandi of this case is that, accused person took the data/resume from open source website i.e. Shine.com, Naukri.com and Monster.com. They create a fake id on that website and took the data from that website for the INR 40,000/- approx. They received an excel sheet of data. After that they use to approach handicap, poor, labour or needy people to open bank account and took
SIM card in their name by paying them INR 400-500.
After receive SIM they start calling to people from data obtained through shine.com, Naukri.com and
Monster.com and they called approx. 800 to 1000 people per day and approx. 5 or 7 people became a victim and duped by them. They offer the job to the victim in a reputed company and called to victim that it was the last day and he is shortlisted. They took in advance money from the victim on the behalf of seat confirmation, education documents verification, employment verification, document submission, Gateway close, cheque assurance, on the pretext of refund and others.
After receiving the amount from victim they did not provide any job to victim and switched off their mobile phones or block the victim call and targeted the new ones. They changed their call centre address regularly. They spend all duped money in their posh and luxury life.
RECOVERY: Two Laptop, Two Mobile phones, Four ATM card of different banks, 13 Portable Landline phones, One CPU, One Desktop
CYBER TIP: Do not trust anyone who offer a job through email or over phone call or through advertisement in newspaper, verify them through trusted source or from the company/origination regarding job vacancy on own level. Do not deposited/transfer the money till the confirmation of
trusted source.
