Noida: Police have busted two call centres in sectors 2 and 6 being run by two separate gangs — one providing fake jobs at Indigo Airlines and the other offering loans at low interest rates but never disbursing the money. In total, the two gangs may have cheated more than 300 people over the past two to three years, an officer said.Police received a tip-off about the call centre in Sector 2 and conducted a raid. Officers found two men and two women at the spot and questioned them.The accused allegedly sourced personal details of job seekers from employment websites and contacted them with fake offers of recruitment in Indigo Airlines and airport services. Victims were asked to pay registration, documentation and processing fees in exchange for appointment letters before the cutting off all communication.Police estimate that this call centre alone may have cheated more than 100 people.The accused named Sonu Kumar, a Delhi resident, as the mastermind of the gang. Teams have been formed to trace him.The gang routinely destroyed SIM cards used in the frauds and frequently changed mobile phones to evade detection. New SIM cards were allegedly obtained using the identities of unsuspecting individuals. Police recovered five smartphones, five keypad mobile phones, multiple SIM cards, a pen drive and documents, including forms and invoices bearing the names of Indigo Airlines and HDFC Bank.Of the four, Mohit Kumar (28) and Aadesh Yadav (26) were arrested but the two women were let go after it was found they were not aware of the fraudulent aspects of the operation. Investigators said the women had been hired only to make calls using contact lists provided by the operators.In a separate operation, police raided a call centre in Sector 6 and arrested Tanuj Kumar Goyal, 32, a resident of Gagan Vihar in Ghaziabad, and Pankaj Kumar, 32, a native of Bihar and currently residing in Delhi.Investigators said the duo had been running the operation for nearly three years, posing as bank officials, insurance company employees and loan agents. They allegedly promised low-interest loans, credit cards, LIC policy renewals and insurance refunds before collecting money from victims as processing charges and stopped taking their calls after that.Police seized 17 ATM cards, four mobile phones, an HP laptop and an HDFC Bank cheque book from the accused. During the investigation, officers linked one bank account to a cyber fraud involving ₹3.13 lakh reported by a complainant from Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh.Police also found evidence that the accused had cheated a woman of ₹25,000 on the pretext of renewing her LIC policy. WhatsApp chats recovered from Pankaj’s phone revealed another transaction in which a victim transferred ₹3,800 for a fake policy renewal.Efforts are under way to identify more of the gangs’ victims through financial records and digital devices recovered from the sites, the officer said.
