Gang of 4 gets arrested for defrauding 100+ people online

Gurgaon: The Faridabad police arrested a four-member gang for alleged duping of more than a hundred people, in various States, via online frauds, The Indian Express reported.

According to the police, the arrestees persuaded people by offering prices in lottery and credit card activation-related frauds. The gang had operated a vehicle, a Mahindra Scorpio, as a virtual call centre to avoid giving the whiff to police. They kept changing its registration number too, police informed.

Police seized the car, four mobile phones, a fake SIM card as well as a pen drive containing a list of contacts.

Police identified the arrestees as Deepak Jha from Faridabad, Deeksha from Delhi, Suhail from Uttar Pradesh and Deepak Singh from Delhi and added that they were arrested from Sector 31. Deepak, the mastermind of the gang, has experience working in a call centre in Delhi.

Police said that the accused called people and convinced them that they had won a smartwatch, a car or a motorcycle. They ask people to pay an 18 per cent GST to claim the prize, and the money should be transferred to bank accounts and online wallets. The woman among the arrestees calls the targets and tells them their phone number won a lottery. Then, another of them posing as her senior would explain the terms and conditions to claim the reward before asking the victims to transfer the money. The accused have also swindled some, convincing them of issuing credit cards.

Police informed that they had registered an FIR, naming the four, under various sections of IPC at the Sector 31 police station.