New Delhi: Three people including a husband-wife duo were arrested for cheating people on the pretext of providing bank loan at zero per cent interest rate against their insurance policies.
Police identified the accused as Vivek Srivastava (31), Deepak Sharma (26) and his wife Neha Jha (24). According to police, during interrogation accused Vivek disclosed that he started his career in a call centre as a team leader and worked for various renowned companies.
"During his tenure in the call centre, he learned how to sell policies to the clients but in this profile, he could not earn extra money. Thereafter, he along with his juniors Deepak and Neha decided to earn easy money by duping their clients on the pretext of providing bank loan at zero per cent interest against their insurance policies," police said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Thakur said that after convincing the victims, it was a major challenge to how to call them and drain out the cheated amount easily without any risk. For this purpose, he arranged SIM cards based on fake addresses for calling purposes to their victims and the bank accounts were opened based on fake addresses to get the cheated money deposited from the victims.
"Neha, who used go by the name 'Nisha' used to call the targeted persons for convincing them for making payment as per their purported scheme and Deepak used to call the targeted persons impersonating himself as a bank official," he said. After getting the victim's money deposited in the bank accounts, they used to divide the equal share of money among themselves and spent that money on their needs and luxuries.