Noida:
Four people have been arrested by the Noida cyber cell for allegedly running a call centre through which they made crores of rupees by seducing people on the phone. Police says that the general manager and three employees including a girl have been nabbed. They are also probing a big BPO company which is involved in the case.
Sanjay Gupta, a private security guard, was one of the victims of the call centre. He says he received an SMS from the call centre and lost all his money.
"I received an SMS some days ago which said a girl wanted to be my friend. When I called on that number, a girl seduced me and we used to talk every day for hours. I transferred a lot of money in the bank account number provided by her because she promised to get intimate with me. A few days ago I realised that she is cheating me and so I filed a police complaint," he said.
The police, during its investigation found that many college going girls used to work at the call centre and would seduce people.
The girls were paid Rs 20 per hour for talking to customers; if they talk to customers for 200 hours, they are paid Rs 6,000 as premium; but if a girl would talk to a customer for less than a minute, she would not be paid.
Customers used to be charged Rs 30 for the first minute and then Rs 2 from the second minute onwards.
Police says the business was done in accordance with the revenue share. The service provider company would get 60 per cent and the value added service provider would get the remaining 40 per cent.
"We have come to know that a lot of college girls used to work there and seduce people in return of good salaries. Everyone was given a target to complete. We have arrested few people of the company and are further investigating. This is an international racket and we are also investigating that if other call centres in the district are doing the same," said Deputy Superintendent of Police, Cyber Cell, Triveni Singh.