MUMBAI: At least six homebuyers were duped of collectively Rs 2.7 lakh after they received calls from scamsters posing as tele-callers from a private bank, luring them with home loans at a lucrative interest rate.
The BKC police have arrested three men – Deepak Muni (26), Manish Magam (27), and Ankaj Yadav (23) – all school and college dropouts – who were operating a call centre from a rented shop in Thane (West) for the last few months.Thehomebuyers duped were provided with fake loan approval letters and the private bank’s fake signature and stamp.
The case was registered on November 25, by the bank’s deputy vice president Avinash Kinney (41), after the bank carried out an internal probe on receiving complaints from customers. “We have received complaints of at least six homebuyers who have fallen prey to the fraud. The trio was caught after we went through the money trails and the bank accounts to which the victims transferred their money,” said a BKC police station police officer.
Based on the complaint, DCP (Zone VIII) Dikshit Gedam supervised a team comprising BKC police senior inspector Raghunath Kadam, inspector Rajesh Gawli, sub-inspector Rajabhau Garad, and staff, and tracked the accused through technical assistant. Police seized 19 mobiles, 39 SIMs, 19 bank accounts of 12 banks, and a few laptops.
The BKC police have arrested three men – Deepak Muni (26), Manish Magam (27), and Ankaj Yadav (23) – all school and college dropouts – who were operating a call centre from a rented shop in Thane (West) for the last few months.Thehomebuyers duped were provided with fake loan approval letters and the private bank’s fake signature and stamp.
The case was registered on November 25, by the bank’s deputy vice president Avinash Kinney (41), after the bank carried out an internal probe on receiving complaints from customers. “We have received complaints of at least six homebuyers who have fallen prey to the fraud. The trio was caught after we went through the money trails and the bank accounts to which the victims transferred their money,” said a BKC police station police officer.
Based on the complaint, DCP (Zone VIII) Dikshit Gedam supervised a team comprising BKC police senior inspector Raghunath Kadam, inspector Rajesh Gawli, sub-inspector Rajabhau Garad, and staff, and tracked the accused through technical assistant. Police seized 19 mobiles, 39 SIMs, 19 bank accounts of 12 banks, and a few laptops.