Two held for duping people by offering installation of Airtel's network devices

Two men have been arrested for allegedly duping around 200 people of Rs five crore by offering installation of Airtel's network devices on their premises in return for commission, the Uttar Pradesh STF said on Saturday.

The duo, residents of Delhi and operating a fake call centre from Noida, were held on Friday by the Special Task Force (STF), a senior official said.

Accused Shubham Mishra and Pankaj Kumar, both in their 20s, were also in illegal possession of personal data of one lakh people, he said.

"They would call up people across the country and lure them with offers for installing Airtel's 'Digital Data Machine' on their premises, which work like mobile phone towers but occupy less space. They would lure the targets with a Rs 30 lakh one-time commission and Rs 65,000 monthly rental for the work. When somebody would accept their offer they would eventually ask for money citing GST, service charge and state transactions," Additional Superintendent of Police, STF, Vishal Vikram ...