CHANDIGARH,18.04.24-In major breakthrough a case was solved in which 03 accused who were running fake call center at Noida were arrested in case FIR No. 31 dated 13.04.2024, U/S 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120 B IPC, PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP-Cyber, UT, Chandigarh, under close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/Cyber Crime& IT UT, Chandigarh and supervision of Inspector Sh. Ranjit Singh SHO Police Station-Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh. The details of case is given below.

Brief Facts of Case 1:-

It is submitted that above mentioned case was registered on the complaint of Ms Baljeet Kaur R/o H No 300/12, Village Dariya, UT Chandigarh in which Complainant reported that on 20.01.2024, she was sitting with her friend Jaspreet Kaur and discussing about her resume and jobs, which was posted by her friend for job on Apna job portal. In the mean time a call was received on her friend’s mobile and the same was attended by complainant and she also shared her mobile number with caller. Caller told that they provide job in banks and asked for interview. After that so many times calls were received by complainant at her mobile from callers by using different mobile numbers and asked for interview for bank job. They allured her for job in HDFC bank and sent fake documents/appointment/agreement letter of HDFC Bank from mail IDs i.e. carrerjob469@gmail.com, confirmationnhdfc@gmail.com on her mail ID and asked money for documentation/security and so many charges. She shared her documents via her mail ID on above said mail IDs. She deposited total amount 62835/- (a lot of transactions in small amounts) in account number 31823659898 (SBI Bank), which is provided by callers. After receiving the money the callers stopped to respond of her calls. After this she realized that she was cheated by them and a case was registered.

After registration of the above case during investigation the raiding party has been constituted to proceed further into investigation and on the basis of Technical support & secret information, a raid was conducted at Faridabad (HR), Noida (UP) and on 15.04.2024, Sailesh Kumar Singh S/o Manikant Singh R/o H Normal A 41, Dayal bagh colony, surajpur, faridabad (HR) age 31 years, (Manager of fake call center) arrested from Faridabad (HR). After that a raid conducted at Sector 18, Noida (UP) on 16.04.2024 and Aarti Mehra D/o Dhani Ram R./o # G 16, Manila Apartment, Indrapiram, Gaziabad UP age 31 years and Avinash Faitmar S/o Raj Kumar R/o Raipur Sector 126 Noida UP age 22 years have been arrested. Three mobile phones and a sim card, which were used for calling and three laptops were used for sent the mails (Which were used in crime) to victims also recovered from them. Beside this six more mobiles were recovered from possession of Sailesh Kumar Singh and further investigation is going on.

Modus Operandi of the case:-

The modus operandi of this case is that, scammers set up a fake call center and job data received from Apna job portal and called to victims for providing the jobs. Further, in allurement victims transferred the amounts for job. There was a main associate Sailesh Kumar Singh, who called victims for job and manages the account and transferred the amount in his PNB and Kotak Bank accounts and he further pay small amounts to his associates. Aarti co-accused also managed the bank accounts and called to victims for job from fake call center, in absence of Sailesh Kumar Singh. Avinash Faitmar called to victims for job confirmation and showing sometimes himself as senior director and sometimes junior of company and taking amount in account, on the name of job confirmation letter.

Profile of accused:-

Recovery:-

Further, the recovered data is being shared with I4C to get the same analyzed to reveal Inter-state linkages at central level to curb Cyber Crime all over the India.

Tips:-

1. Always keep in mind before apply the job that any reputed company never asking for money to provide the job.
2. Always check and verify completely the sites/mail-IDs, from where calls were received for Job.
3. Always apply for jobs from official websites of companies.
4. Always check and verify completely creditability of job providing portals.
5. Avoid clicking on links received via SMS or WhatsApp, as scammers often use these avenues to manipulate victims.
6. Don’t receive/ send any payment without verifying it.
7. 
   Turn on 2-step verification/authentication for all your social media accounts.
   1. Protect your systems/devices through security software such as anti-virus with the latest version.