Kolkata: Two persons from Kolkata involved different
online cheating cases, were arrested by the Cyber Crime police of Hyderabad.
One of the accused was involved in cheating people on
the pretext of selling holiday packages by flouting several fake companies and
the other accused duped people in the guise of selling brand new mobile phones
but delivered the box containing stones.
Varun Jaiswal, 25, proprietor and senior executive in
Holiday Makers Asia, resident of Hooghly in West Bengal was arrested while two
others Mousami Chakraborty and Arindam Chakraborty are still absconding. Police
seized ATM cards, two pan cards, stamps, laptop and four SIM cards.
Police said that the offender Varun was running
several fake companies like Royal Tourism, Travel Support and Holiday Makers
etc on the pretext of selling holiday packages along with Mousami and Arindam
at Dum Dum, Kolkata. “When interested people called, their details would be
forwarded to Varun who in turn insisted the customers to deposit an initial
payment and other charges ranging from Rs10,000 to Rs 50,000 in his bank
account. Hundreds of innocent people all over India were cheated and the
accused fraudulently earned lakhs of rupees,” the police said.
Similarly, police arrested Mohammad Fahad, 25,
business, resident of Howrah, West Bengal State. Fahad posted an advertisement
on OLX of selling a brand new Samsung
Galaxy Note-4 for Rs 19,000 in February. While innocent people called the
accused, he convinced them to deposit the amounts. Later, he took one empty
phone box, kept a stone and delivered it. The mobile numbers of the cheated
people was blocked on the accused mobile and did not give any response. In this
manner, the accused cheated about 20 to 30 people and earned easy money.
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