Pretend Name Centre Duping US Voters Busted In Maharashtra, 10 Arrested
Police carried out raid and busted the racket on Tuesday. Ten individuals have been arrested (Representational)
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Ten individuals, together with a couple of ladies, have been arrested for allegedly working a faux name centre from Nalasopara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district and extorting cash from US voters by way of posing as officers, police mentioned on Thursday.
Officers of the Mira Bhayandar and Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police commissionerate raided the faux name centre on Tuesday evening, he mentioned.
The callers would pose as US Social Safety Division officers and inform the Americans that they’ve dedicated severe offences and if they do not pay cash they might face motion and land in prison, an professional mentioned.
“The accused used to thieve the Social Safety Numbers (SSN), cell phone numbers and different confidential knowledge of the United States voters. They used to make Voice Over Web Protocol (VoIP) calls to the sufferers from their bogus name centre,” MBVV police spokesperson Tukaram Tatkar mentioned.
“They used to inform the United States voters that they will face motion for the intense offences dedicated by way of them. The callers would additionally inform that they will face penalties like shedding their jobs, cancellation in their using licences, assets attachment or blacklisting in their social safety playing cards,” he mentioned.
The callers would additionally inform the sufferers that chargesheets might be filed towards them they usually can lead to jails for his or her crimes. They used to threaten and extract cash from the sufferers at the promise that no motion can be initiated towards them, he added.
“In response to a tip-off, a police staff carried out a raid in Yashwant Gaurav Construction on Tuesday evening and busted the racket. Ten individuals have been arrested,” Mr Tatkar mentioned.
The accused have been known as Prakash Banerjee (34), Jayesh Padaya (24), Chandan Amin (24), Bharat Bhati (30) Omkar Kale (20), Sainath Kapade (20), Komal Bagade (19), Muskan Hussain (19), Pranjal Shinde (28) and Chandresh Vishram (24), police mentioned.
A case has been registered towards them underneath IPC sections 420 (dishonest), 419 (dishonest by way of personation), 384 (extort), 379 (robbery), 405 (prison breach of consider), 120B (prison conspiracy), sections of the Indian Telegraph Act and the IT Act at Nalasopara police station on Wednesday, he mentioned.
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