Vasu Singh, the owner of Silvereen Art and Craft in West Karawal Nagar, Northeast Delhi, had planned to sell to foreign clients when he received a call from an employee of the website bhartiyaexporters.com, which purports to promote goods to both domestic and foreign consumers. Singh had no idea that it was just the start of a complex call center scam that would end up costing him Rs 11 lakh and result in the arrest of four Ashok Nagar residents on Sunday.
DCP (Northeast) Joy Tirkey said that small company owners were tricked into listing their goods on a portal that offers access to both domestic and foreign markets by use of the purported center.
The complainant claims that on March 20, he received a call from an Aryan asking him to pay Rs 5,900 for registering his shop on the web. Ten days later, Singh received word that he had to deliver a massive order valued at Rs 3.5 crore right away for a company. Singh gave his approval.
A call from Jose William, a corporate representative, informing me that a deposit was on the way arrived after this. But Singh responded by contacting the portal when William wanted a “credibility certificate” from him. The FIR, filed on September 4, said that they promised to make it for Rs 70,000.
William received the aforementioned certificate from Singh on April 6 and requested that he disclose a secure payment mechanism. Singh didn’t have one, so he got in touch with Aryan, who offered to make one for him for Rs 63,720 on behalf of the website. In order to release the advance, William next demanded a certificate under the General Product Safety Directive.
Singh looked at the portal once more. This time, a man by the name of Vipul offered to pay Rs 2.31 lakh to have the certificate created. William requested an Exports House Certificate, so Singh supplied the certificate and the money in three payments by April 23. Manish from Bhartiya Exporters called Singh. For Rs 4 lakh, he said, a certificate could be made.
Singh paid the money on May 6 but never received the certificate. But a month later, he received a message from William stating that he may handover the US license for his shop to the company he worked for if he didn’t have the Exports House Certificate. According to the FIR, Singh paid Rs 3.24 lakh for a US patent that was made at the request of Bhartiya Exporters and gave it to William.
William promised Singh that the company’s MD would transmit the money in a week after two months. William did, however, later notify Singh that the MD’s accounts had been stopped and he had been arrested in Germany. William’s phone number became inaccessible after that. Singh reached out to Bhartiya Exporters in the interim, but they declined to step in.
The merchant reported something to the Northeast Cyber Police Station at Jyoti Nagar. According to police, their investigation located the phony call center. The men who were detained for cheating were Kuldeep Joshi (29), his brother Deepak Joshi (25), Adarsh (24), and Jamshed Ansari (24).
“All certificates provided by William, alias Deepak, to Vasu were fake,” said the DCP.
They were arrested for violating the BNS’s provisions 318 (fraudulently obtaining another person’s property), 319 (cheating by impersonation), and 61 (criminal conspiracy).
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