Parmesh S Jain
The Northeast Cyber crime police on Saturday busted a loan racket and arrested four persons who were running a loan racket and cheating people .
The accused are,Satish,24,Uday,24,Jayaram,32 and Vinay, 26.
Senior officer told reporters,a complaint was registered in Northeast CEN Police station in which a complainant stated that he received a call from a executive who introduced himself as executive of a loan firm.
The caller told him that worth several lakhs amount of loan has been sanctioned and asked them to complete few formalities including payment of processing fees and insurance to cover the loan.
After getting the money trasferred to their bank account,the number is getting switched off.
Based on the complaint special team was formed by DCP Northeast, Dr Anoop A Shetty,under the leadership of PI,Santhosh Ram R and his team swung into action.
The northeast Cyber crime team with the police investigation skills and with the help of technical inputs on Saturday track down the accused to a rented house from where they were operating and arrested them.
The police seized four mobile phones,seven SIM cards and a bank account with Rs.1.5 lakh seized .
During investigation the accused confessed the crime and they revealed that once they trap a victim they would change the SIM to trap another victim with different SIM .
A detailed investigation by the team it has revealed that they were previously working in call center which was giving customer care service to banks.
They started four to five months ago and so far they have cheated more than 15 people.
The accused would call people randomly posing as executives of reputed banks and offer business loans.
The accused would then ask for ID proof and other documents from the victim and promised to get back to him after document verification.
This is to gain the trust of the victims and make them believe that it was a genuine business offers .
After few days the accused called the victims to announce that the loan worth several lakhs has been sanctioned and asked them to complete few formalities including payment of processing fees and insurance to cover the loan.
After getting the money trasferred to their bank account,the accused would change the SIM and to lead a lavish lifestyle they were cheating people to make easy bucks are now landing in jail.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A subramanyeshwara Rao,DCP Northeast,Dr Anoop A Shetty,PI,Santhosh Ram R,PSI,Raman Gowda,ASI,Ramesh and staff as,Prabhakar, Santhosh C,Chikkahanumaiah,Basavanagowda Choudhari and other staff has been appreciated for the exemplary and excellent work done by them in nabbing the four former call centre employee and busting the loan scam racket a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.
