The Cyberabad Police cracked two cyber crime scams and arrested members of the gangs involved in the scams.
Cyberabad Commissioner of Police Stephen Ravindra today said that the two scams were amongst the biggest scams of the country, and that the police had arrested 14 members of the two gangs that were involved.
He added that the police had also seized 30 cell phones, 3 laptops, a car and a bike from the accused.
Revealing the details of the scam at a press conference, Ravindra said that the gang members had set up two fake call centres in the name of SBI, and cheated scores of people across the country to the tune of hundreds of crores. He said that the gang members used a spoofing app to make their victims believe that they were calling from SBI's genuine customer care centre, and gathered the data of the SBI customers from its agents and cheated them.
The first gang had set up a fake call centre at Uttam Nagar of Delhi, and had made 33,000 calls in a span of one year. A total of 209 cases had been booked against the gang's members across the country, Ravindra said.
The second gang cheated people by promising to grant them loans through its loan apps and collecting exorbitant money in the name of processing the loans, the Commissioner said. He said that one Abhishek Misra was the kingpin of the gang, which gathered the personal and bank details of the victims through a fake website in order to cheat them.