Fake call centre unearthed, 4 arrested

Four persons were today arrested in Faridabad for running a fake call centre through which they cheated unemployed youths particularly south Indians.

Police recovered a mobile phone, laptop and a computer system from their possession from the site in Sector-16 Faridabad.

The arrested accused have been identified as Naveen Gandhi of Faridabad, Abhishek Singh alias Pankaj, a native of Uttar Pradesh presently residing in Faridabad, Harpreet Singh of Delhi and Dheeraj Singh Mehta of Uttrakhand, living in Delhi, police said.

Police said that all the accused used to take records of applicants from job portals to contact them on phone and promised them employment in airlines and hotels abroad. They duped the job aspirants by getting money transferred to their bank accounts as fees.

They used to mainly target south Indians so that the victims would not try to trace them due to the distance factor, police said.

Police said that the accused had also created a commercial mail id to cheat the innocent people.

They also used Jet airways logo while sending e-mails to applicants, police said.

A case under IT Act has been registered against them at police station Faridabad.