2 Airtel Employees in Gurugram Held for Offering Faux Numbers to Fraudsters

These days, cases of online fraud are continuously increasing. In most cases it is seen that thugs use fraud phone numbers to trap their nets. But what if a well -known telecom company issues this fraud phone number!

A similar case has come to light in Gurugram in which the police have arrested two Airtel employees. They are accused of allegations that they used to provide virtual phone numbers to thugs associated with Indonesia and China. After that these thugs used to trap local youth in their trap. These thugs used to lure the youth of fake jobs. He used to implicate him for task -based fraud investment.

According to Cybercrime’s Assistant Commissioner of Police, Piyush Dhawan in Gurugram, a person named Neeraj Walia and Hemant has been arrested by the cybercrime team in a joint operation. The police have registered a case against the accused under sections 318 (4), 319 and 61 (2) of BNS.

In fact, the police received a call from a local in Gurugram, in which a complaint was made that a landline number was lured to give part time job. The caller offered a part time job to the receiver in which he had to give a review of hotels. He got 200 on completion of the task. Initially some amount was inserted into the victim’s account. But later he was asked to invest with a large amount.

In the deception, the victim transferred more money to the thugs’ account. But as he was promised, he never received increased money in return. During interrogation, the police came to know that Neeraj worked as a site verifier for Airtel and Hemant was his team leader. He released the landline number used in the scam in the name of Acmarsha Services Private Limited, which was not registered at the given address. Using this number, the fraudsters offered fake jobs and targeted people to cheat people on the pretext of investment schemes.