GURUGRAM: Police have busted a fake call centre cheating people in the name of insurance. The fake call centre run by a former employee of an insurance company used to cheat people above 50 years of age by selling them fake insurance policies. In the past three months, the accused had cheated more than 150 people of several lakhs. Four people, including the owner of the call centre, have been arrested.
On August 3, a woman living in Gurugram filed a complaint with cyber police station alleging that she received a call from a person who claimed to be representative of an insurance company and cheated her of Rs 50,000 in the name of an insurance policy. Based on her complaint, a case was registered under IPC Section 420 (cheating) and also under Section 66 D of the IT Act.
