Fraud in Noida : Employee becomes Entrepreneur to Run International Fraud Racket, dupes USA residents

(10/04/18) Noida :–

Noida police today cracked upon an international fake call-centre which was being used to dupe unsuspecting foreign nationals by offering them non-guaranteed loans.

The mastermind of this business was allegedly employed at a similar fake call centre which was busted months back in Guragaon. Named Bhawani Singh, he was on leave when his previous office was raided by police hence he evaded the arrest and thereafter started his own similar centre in Noida.

As per the initial investigation by Noida police, the members of this group were specifically targeting USA residents and were using i-Tune cards to get money. Police also suspect a probable Hawala angle in this case; however same is still under probe.

The gang was busted on a cue by police informer and all the staffs as well as the call centre owner were arrested by the police teams.

Briefing about the same SSP (Gautam Buddha Nagar) Dr. Ajay Pal Sharma said, “We have got lead that one fake call centre operating in Sector- 59’s house number A-3 was involved in illegal mode of business. Sector 49 police team raided the office and arrested 23 people from the office including the mastermind owner and the employees”.

Speaking further he said, “As per initial probe they were targeting USA citizens and by offering them unsecured Pay day loans. They were using some merchant date for to look for targets. The gang would use Voice Message service to lure American Citizen who would further be convinced about the easy loan money by the staff of the call centre. After making the target interested in taking loan they would ask them to deposit one instalment first on the pretext of checking client’s capacity to return back money. The money was taken in form of 16 digit iTune card number”.

Police officials suspected that fraud worth lakhs of rupees would have been committed by the gang in past few months. It was also revealed that master-mind Bhawani Singh Banjara, a resident of Makrana from Rajasthan’s Nagraur District was previously employed in a similar setup at Gurgaon.

He learned the tricks of this trade from his previous employment and used it to mint money in Noida. All 23 people have been sent to custody whereas cyber-crime wing has also pitched into carry forward the probe and connect the dots.