The Asian Age

Fake call centre raided, 30 women telecaller­s held for duping job aspirants

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New Delhi, Jan. 22: The Delhi Police has arrested 31 people, including 30 women, for allegedly running a fake call centre and duping people on the pretext of providing them jobs in bank, officials said on Friday.

According to police, a secret informatio­n was received that a fake call centre was running near GT Road, Shahdara.

Thereafter, police team raided the premises and found that a fake call center was running there on the pretext of providing jobs in bank.

Executives working in call centre used to call people for bank jobs. The victims were asked to register themselves on website www.bankinstan­tjob and to pay `10 in the name of registrati­on.

“A total of 31 people, including 30 female callers, were nabbed,” Additional Deputy Commission­er of Police (Shahdara) Sanjay Kumar Sain said.

During interrogat­ion, the accused disclosed that they used to advertise bank jobs through internet asking people to visit the website mentioned there. Thereafter, the callers used to call the interested persons and ask them to pay `10 for job registrati­on, Sain said.

The accused used to send a link to the victims for filing the informatio­n for payment of

◗ THE ACCUSED used to send a link to the victims for filing the informatio­n for payment of fee. However, when the victim clicked on the link, a parallel window opened on the accused’s system and they could see the secret informatio­n like card details on their admin portal.

◗ They used to fill the details by themselves and took the OTP from the victims, following which `2,000 to 5,000 was deducted from the account of the victims, police said.

fee. However, when the victim clicked on the link, a parallel window opened on the accused’s system and they could see the secret informatio­n like card details on their admin portal.

They used to fill the details by themselves and took the OTP from the victims, following which `2,000 to 5,000 was deducted from the account of the victims, police said.

They were using the cheated amount to get coupon or gift card and later redeemed at various e-shopping websites. A total of 48 mobile phones, eight ATM cards, 85 SIM cards and three laptops were recovered from their possession, police added.

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