Crime branch of Delhi Police busts fake call centre

Feb 18, 2022

New Delhi, February 18(ANI): The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has busted a call centre that used to cheat credit card holders. 117 sim cards, 28 mobiles and other materials that were used in the commission of crime have been recovered from their possession. The police team received information that one person named Omaan is running an illegal call centre in Janakpuri area of Delhi meant for duping several people by credit card fraud in the name of increasing credit card limit, activating the newly issued cards and on the pretext of redeeming reward points. On the basis of the information, the police team conducted several raids at Mahavir Nagar and Janakpuri area and unearthed the racket. The accused used to make calls to these citizens by introducing themselves as bank executive from the same bank’s Credit Card Department. They obtained the credit card details and OTP from innocent people and transferred the cheated amount through Mobikwik wallet, which enables their users to pay and save on online transactions, from this wallet they used to transfer the money in several fake accounts opened for cheating purposes.