Fake call centre busted, 3 arrested

The police has busted a fake call centre operating at Deoli in south Delhi and arrested three men for allegedly duping several job aspirants on the pretext of providing them jobs in private airlines, officials said on Tuesday.

Accused Ayush Singh (27) and Ramiz Raja (34) opened a call centre at Deoli in the name of a consultancy firm for assisting job aspirants to get placed in domestic airlines and also roped in Sitaram (38) in their plan, they said.

DCP (Northwest) Usha Rangarani said the accused Ayush Singh (27) and Ramiz Raja created a fake ID on monster.com and got data of job aspirants. Then they used fake names and called up their potential targets by posing as HR executives of various consultancies with jobs offers as cabin crews, ground staff, and ticketing staff in different domestic airlines.

The officer said that on the pretext of registration, uniform and document verification, the accused took money from job aspirants and took interview of candidates telephonically and also gave them fake appointment letters. The received cheated amount was further distributed equally among them in different accounts and wallets, police said. The matter came to notice after one of the victims who was also duped by the accused men using the similar modus operandi reported at Maurya Enclave police station.

Police said they conducted raid at a building in Delhi’s Deoli and on the instance of arrested persons, a fake call centre being operated by them before the lockdown was busted and several articles were also recovered from a place in Noida.