Gurugram. In a major breakthrough, a team of Cyber Crime Police Station of Gurugram Police has busted a fake call center and arrested 38 people, including nine women, for recovery of loans given through online Chinese and other loan applications. They used to cheat people in the name of As part of their modus operandi, the accused used to edit photographs with nude (obscene) pictures of their victims and send them to their friends and relatives through WhatsApp. After this, the criminals used to send threatening messages to the victims through WhatsApp.
Police have recovered Rs 1.70 lakh in cash, 27 laptops and 44 mobile phones from their possession.
According to the police, SHO Bijendra Singh of Cyber Crime Station had received information that a fake call center located on the first floor of plot number-26 in Udyog Vihar Phase-1 was being run without prior permission and extorting extortion from innocent people.
On Friday, a team was formed to arrest 38 people in the case by raiding the fake call center.
ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan said, “The arrested persons disclosed that the owner of the call center was Abhinav, resident of Kheri Hojdarpur village in Jhajjar district and Shantanu Kaushik of Rohini, Delhi.”
His accomplices Manish Kumar of Delhi and Pradeep Kumar of Bhiwani used to give secret information about the victims, which they used to threaten people.
“The criminals used to provide loans through various online apps including Tx, PF, Karta Loan, Speed Loan, Super Wallet etc,” Sangwan said.
Sangwan said, “To put pressure on the victims, the accused also used various tactics to extort money from them before the stipulated time. They used photos and videos of people and shared them with their contact list and various UPIs. Recovered money through ID.”
—AnyTV News
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