GANG OF TELLY-CALLER CHEATS BUSTED

A joint team of Special Staff/West District and Bangalore Police has busted a gang of Telly-caller cheats namely Deepak Kumar Pandey s/o Subhash Chand Panday and (2) Babban Singh s/o Umesh Singh. They have been apprehended on secret information on 14/02/2016 from the area of Uttam Nagar, Delhi. 05 mobile phones, 10 sim cards, 34 fake voter ID cards & 16 photo graphs of different persons were recovered from their possession. Both have been arrested by Bangalore Police in Crime No 09/16, dt 16/01/2016, u/s 420 IPC r/w 66 (c), 66 (d) of Information Technology Act 2008, Police Station Basavanagudi, Bangalore.

INTRODUCTION :

Smt S Madhari Letha r/o Shrawanti Gardens, JP Nagar Bangalore gave a written complaint to Inspector In-charge Police Station Basavanagudi, Bangalore on 16/01/2016. She has alleged that she got a call from mobile No 9910101796 on 14/01/2016, the caller impersonated himself as executive of State Bank Of India and requested her to disclose the details of her ATM Card on the pretext that they are doing verification & fresh ATM Card will be issued. She shared the card No, expiry date & CVV No. with the caller. During the call she got an SMS on her mobile phone. The caller requested her to share the OTP received through SMS. After some time she got a massage on her mobile phone that an amount of Rs 1,05,420/- has been debited from her account. She called back the alleged caller but the phone was found to be switched off. Later on, she came to know that some unknown persons have cheated her by asking her ATM Card details & has done an online shopping from Amazon & Flipkart. On the basis of the complaint, Crime No 09/16, dt 16/01/2016, u/s 420 IPC r/w 66 (c), 66 (d) of information technology act 2008 was registered at Police Station Basavanagudi, Bangalore. The investigation was taken up by the local Police.

During investigation, it was revealed that the alleged caller’s location was in Uttam Nagar Delhi and he had made several calls to other mobile phone numbers of Bangalore. Accordingly a team from Bangalore Police came to Delhi for apprehending the alleged accused persons.     

PROFILE OF ACCUSED:

·         Deepak Kumar Pandey s/o Subhash Chand Panday R/o H No 293, phase 1A, Om Vihar, Uttam Nagar New Delhi Age 25 Yrs. Permanent Add Vill Jamuaiya Kalan, PS Menhdawal, Distt Santkabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. He is B. tech mechanical.

·         Babban Singh s/o Umesh Singh R/o H No 293, phase 1A, Om Vihar, Uttam Nagar New Delhi Age 24 Yrs. Permanent Add Vill. Khilwal, PS Bindu Pur, Distt Vaishali, Bihar. He is B. tech mechanical. 

  

RECOVERY

1.            10 Sim cards of different mobile service providers ( 5 of Vodafone, 3 of Idea, & one of Reliance, one of Airtel)

2.            5 mobile phones

3.            34 Fake Id election voter cards.

4.            16 Photo Graphs of male & female

5.            Public Data records containing name, address, Phone Number of credit card holders of about 5000 people of Bangalore.

DETAILS OF THE TEAM

The team of Bangalore Police consisting of SI Raj Shekhraiah, Ct Rangaswamy, Ct Manjnath from Police Station Basavanagudi, Bangalore came to Delhi & met the undersigned for assistance in the case. It was found that these alleged callers have contacted almost 400 persons in Bangalore within a period of about 2 months. These persons might also be the victims of the alleged gang. Considering the gravity of the case, the team of Special Staff/West District comprising of SI Charan Singh, ASI Ishwar Singh, HC Sunil, HC Mukesh, Ct Rajesh, Ct Samundar, Ct Vikrant, Ct Amarjeet and Ct Rajender, headed by Insp Surender Singh Rathee, under supervision of Sh. Dinesh Kumar-ACP Operation Cell West District was constituted, who nabbed the above said persons after analyzing the technical surveillance record and collecting local intelligence.

INTERROGATION:

          On sustained interrogation both revealed that they have completed their B tech degree in mechanical engineering. After passing out, they searched for job but could not find any suitable job. One of their batch mates, Amit was operating a fake call center in Uttam Nagar, Delhi. Babban Singh came in his contact & learnt how to cheat the people online after obtaining the details of the ATM Cards of the customers. This was a very profit making business. After learning, Babban called his friend Deepak Panday to Delhi & both started a fake call center from H. No 293, phase 1A, Om Vihar, Uttam Nagar New Delhi. They collected the data of customers from the vendors available on just dial. They paid amount to such data vendors. After getting the amount Rs 5000, the vendor forwarded the mail containing the data on the mail ID of the alleged accused persons. The alleged accused managed to obtain mobile numbers of different service providers on the basis of fake ID & photo graphs. After that they started contacting the people from data received & obtained their ATM Card details & started doing online shopping. Their preferred online sites were Amazon & Flipkart. They used to book costly Mobile phones online & make payment from the details obtained by them from various ATM card victim of Bangalore. They have created fake mail IDs for placing orders. They used to give wrong address for delivery. Delivery boy used to contact them on the mobile phones which were obtained by alleged persons on fake IDs. On getting the call from courier boy, they used to meet him near Metro Pillars in the area of Uttam Nagar near to their office. They were having many election ID Cards to show to the courier boy regarding the genuineness of the customers. They used to sell the electronic items obtained by this online shopping to Gaffar Market, Karol Bagh, & Tilak Nagar Markets, Delhi by handing over the genuine bill & sealed parcel. They used to give 10 to 20% discount to the purchaser on the pretext that they do not need this modal hence they are selling this article purchased by them online. In this way, they have committed cheating to a tune of Rs 7 to 8 Lacs with the ATM card holders most of them are from Bangalore. Further interrogation is in progress for finding out & nabbing the other accused persons involved in the racket.