Delhi Police has arrested four people, including the main mastermind, in the case of fraud involving crores of rupees using a Chinese loan app. Police have issued notices to 149 employees who helped the racket to run. 153 hard disks, three laptops, 141 keypad mobile phones, 10 Android phones and four DVRs were also seized from them.
At the same time, the police have also informed that the accused were in contact with two Chinese nationals who operate the loan application app. Anil Kumar, Alok Sharma (24), Avnish (22) and Kannan (35), the main mastermind of the fraud, have been arrested.
Himanshu Goyal filed a complaint on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal on July 14. Goyal said while browsing on Facebook, he came across an ad offering a no-hassle loan of Rs 50,000. After downloading the loan app “On Stream”, the app asked for permission to access contacts and gallery”.
After registration, a loan of Rs 6870 was sanctioned. Then the accused started harassing him using his contacts and photos. The complainant alleged that he had paid them Rs 1 lakh so far, but was constantly harassing him to pay more.
A police investigation nabbed the accused and found that they were running a huge call center named Fly High Global Services and Technology on three floors of a building in Dwarka Sector-7 for the past two years. After conducting the raid, the police found that the owner Anil Kumar, a resident of Dwarka Sector-3, and three team leaders were committing fraud by appointing 149 telecallers.
According to the police, the group bought 300 SIM cards in the name of Silpani International, and used 100 SIM cards to send abusive WhatsApp messages and threaten the victims.
The accused, along with their Chinese colleagues, extorted a huge amount of money. It has been found that Rs 10 crore was transferred to two Chinese named Albert and Tre, and the racket received Rs 3 crore as commission from March 2021 onwards. The accused were talking to each other on Dink Talk app which has multilingual support.
The alleged entity used to harass people by morphing their pictures. They also threaten and send obscene messages to friends and family members on the victim’s contact list.