KOLKATA: From small-time traders and young salaried professional to elderly individuals and retired senior government officials – cops probing into the dud call centers and money fraud cases spread across sector V in Salt Lake, have come across a wide range of victims that have crossed over a thousand spread across Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Tripura and other north eastern states.“The men primarily used to target elderly and retired citizen but a number of young individuals, too, have fallen into their trap. We are still in the process of accumulating all the victims. The amount of money duped from them also has a very wide range, from Rs 17,000 to Rs 1.25 crores. We have identified at least three such companies, sealed offices in 14 months and arrested some of the senior officials of the firms,” said a senior officer of Bidhannagar cyber crime police station.
Retired Jadavpur University official Ramendra Narayan Dutta had first received a call on June last year where the caller identified himself as an IRDA representative and claimed some of the old insurance policies of Dutta that had got lapsed because of non-payment of premium amounts, could be revived and that he was eligible to get the promised sum on maturity plus a penalty fee by the company. The caller then asked him to visit their office and managed to eke out Rs 50,000 from him as a refundable token money to restart the policy.“My father fell in the trap and was wowed with their office spread across seven floors at a Sector V building. Over the next several months, they managed to take out Rs 7.5 lakhs from my father citing some issue or other. They even visited him when he was admitted at a hospital,” said Sneha, Dutta’s daughter.Subimal Bhattacharya, an 88-year-old Belgachhia resident, met with the same mod ..
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