Pune: Cops arrest Noida call centre operator who cheated 600 youths across India

Police said that Kamble, while seeking a job, had posted his personal details on a job portal in September 2014. He received a call from a person claiming to be an employee of a permanent hiring placement firm. The caller told Kamble that he was shortlisted for a job for which he would have to deposit money in an AXIS bank account as registration fees and document verification charges. After Kamble deposited Rs 18,700, he received a call from a second caller, who provided him a bank account number asking him to deposit more money. After a few days, the callers told Kamble they would return his money, though they asked Kamble for another bank account number, saying his account was not “maintained well”. Kamble gave them his uncle’s bank account number along with his online banking user name and password.

Within a few days, Rs 1,09,999 was withdrawn from this account. Kamble then filed a complaint at Khadki police station of online fraud of Rs 1.49 lakh.
Inspector Sunil Pawar of Crime Branch initiated a probe in this case. The police traced Singh from the call detail records. A police team then went to Delhi and arrested Kunal on March 12. Probe revealed that he operated a call centre in the name of UV Career Services in Noida. Police said that he purchased details of job seekers from some online job portals and then contacted them from the call centre, got their bank account details from them and duped them financially through online transactions. Police raided the call centre, which has a staff of 60 people. Police have seized the computer systems in the centre and cash of Rs 2.3 lakh. Meanwhile, a magistrate court remanded him to police custody till March 24 for investigation.

Singh has 18 accounts in different banks. At least 600 job seekers from all over India have deposited Rs 2,59,35,000 in these accounts. Police have informed the banks to freeze all accounts in Singh’s name.