Cyber Cell busts illegal call centre duping US nationals

The cyber cell of the Crime Branch on Saturday nabbed four people from Mirzapur area who have been accused of involvement in running an illegal call centre and duping American citizens on the pretext of providing a loan to them. Two other accused are wanted in the case and the police are looking for them.

As per a Crime Branch officer, they got specific information about an illegal call centre running in Mirzapur. Acting on the tip-off, on Saturday morning, a Crime Branch team raided Cama Commercial Centre, right opposite Mirzapur court.

During the raid, officers nabbed the four accused from the spot. They have been identified as Abdul Latif Shaikh (30), Dany Bolatia (24), Sunil Alsaram (24) and Aakash Kanojia (21). Around Rs 2.4 lakh worth of valuables recovered from the accused include four bikes, four computers, routers and cell phones. Some fake documents were also seized.

While interrogating the accused, the police found out that the call centre belongs to Abdul's cousin, Raju Shaikh. One more person identified only as Habib was also involved in the racket. Both of them are absconding.

Further investigation revealed that the arrested accused used to dupe American citizens on the pretext of providing them with a loan. In order to get approval for the loans, the accused would ask for a token sum from the US nationals . Once the money was transferred to their accounts, they would sever contact. The officer said they managed to embezzle up to 200 dollars from a single US citizen. Investigation is on.