Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad’s Cyber Thana Police has arrested two accused while exposing the gang that duped people across the country in the name of renewal of insurance policy. The mastermind is also among the arrested accused. According to the police, 39 cases of fraud have been exposed in nine states. Police say that the accused who provided SIM cards and bank accounts with fake IDs to the gang has been identified and his search is on.
ADCP Crime Sachchidanand said that recently Sakshi Madke, a resident of Kavinagar, had lodged a case regarding cyber fraud of Rs 1 lakh and Rajni Goyal, a resident of Kaushambi, had lodged a case regarding cyber fraud of Rs 4 lakh. According to the victims, the fraudsters had defrauded them in the name of renewing their insurance policy. ADCP Crime said that after investigating the cases with electronic surveillance and other techniques, two accused have been arrested.
The accused include Greater Noida resident Rishabh Rajput and Vijaynagar Sector-8 resident Sumit Kumar Rawat. Rishabh is originally a resident of Ardli Bazar of Thana Pandeypuri district Varanasi. Four mobile phones, Aadhar card, two PAN cards, four SIM cards and other items have been recovered from the accused.
The ADCP said that Rishabh is a tenth pass and is the mastermind of the gang. He had kept his friend and BCA pass Sumit Kumar Rawat with him on a salary of Rs 15,000 per month. Rishabh had got Sumit to make calls for cyber crime and get fake receipts of policy renewal made.
The accused earlier used to work in a call center located in Noida Sector-63. From there, he had stolen the data of HDFC policyholders. The accused used to cheat people on working days. They used to go to hilly areas to have fun on weekly holidays.
According to ADCP, the accused used keypad mobile phones for cheating and used to call the policyholders posing as HDFC Life Insurance employees. They used to ask the victim to deposit the premium, saying that the policy was cancelled. The premium of the victim’s policy was actually pending, so he got deceived and transferred the amount to the account mentioned by the accused. After this, they used to send fake receipts to the victims.
Fahuddin alias Fahad, a resident of Vaishali, used to give SIM cards and bank accounts with fake IDs to Rishabh. Fahad used to use these accounts as well. Fahad used to give the remaining amount in cash to Rishabh after deducting 25 percent commission from the amount cheated from the victims. Rishabh used to give some amount from this to Sumit as salary and sometimes for expenses. After cheating many victims, the accused used to break the SIM card and throw it away.
The ADCP said that the accused had duped Ranvijay Patel, resident of Jaunpur in UP, Mohammad Siraj Shamsi, resident of Pilibhit, Sugandha, Wahid Ahmed, resident of Saharanpur, Adnan, Anita, Saurabh Verma of Lucknow, Baldu of Mahoba, Rohan Goyal of Kaushambi, Nagendra Pratap Singh of Agra, Kartik, Ramji Maurya of Ayodhya, Aqib Hussain of Bareilly, Sparsh of Meerut and Chandrabhai of Gonda. They had duped eight victims from Rajasthan, three each from Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand and one each from Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Telangana.
