MUMBAI: In a joint investigation into the fake loan app scam, a dedicated officer from Nepal’s cyber police wing has been assigned to coordinate with Bandra-Kurla Complex cyber cops to provide probe details of two Nepali call centres —Blue Sky Business Solutions and Sky World Service Pvt Ltd —busted in the last week of July. The call centres would edit Indian loan app victims’ photos. The morphed nude images and videos would be used by the loan app “recovery agents” for blackmail and extortion.
Mumbai cyber police said they learnt the loan app fraudsters had outsourced editing of the photos and making threat calls to lakhs of victims across the country following the arrest of 14 suspects, including three women, in the case involving Rs 350 crore extortion amount since 2018.
