On January 13 Mumbai cops arrested a 24-year-old-man named as Mohammad Asim Razak Turk in connection to the sim cards scam, As the police recovered around 4,900 SIM cards from accused that were obtained using fake and duplicate documents.However the cops are investigating the case whether there are any more people are included in the scam.
Well the beginning investigations which were made by cops as they came to know that its a conspiracy of telecom company employees and certain mobile phone dealers.As the cops guess that over this fraudulent racket the accused had made Rs 4 lakh rupees.
Deputy police commissioner of Police Manohar Dalvi said, "It's a truly innovative way of raking in money by Razak. We suspect this brazen case involves many people,"
Razak had designed an ingenious way to make money. As he previously worked as a mobile dealer, he was familiar with the intricacy of the mobile business. Approaching cell phone dealer shops, he would request them to hand over application forms of mobile subscribers for a fee. At any given time dealers have a few hundred forms, along with identification proof, with them. Some of which are rejected application forms.
"Razak had procured around 320 documents illegally from one of the mobile dealers in Dongri and he paid Rs 3 per form to the dealer," said Rakesh Sharma, senior inspector of Crime Branch."He then made photocopies of the forms, changing photographs in some forms, and applied for 5,000 SIM cards of various telecom companies," added Sharma.
After receiving the SIM cards, he activated them with a low top-up of Rs 10, as it is a mandatory requirement to activate the new SIM card. He would then wait for three months before unleashing his masterstroke.
"Razzak started contacting several mobile company agents and informed them that he had around 5,000 SIM cards. He told them that he wanted to port the mobile numbers on to their network. He also mentioned that he would take a cut from each number ported," said Sharma.
Sensing a business opportunity for their respective telecom companies, agents complied. After calling their area managers and getting approval, they negotiated with Razak. "The agents promised Razak Rs 80 per SIM card to transfer his number onto their network. He earned Rs 4,00,000 from the transaction," added Sharma.
Rakesh Sharma, a senior inspector of Crime Branch said that in this scam there are some mobile companie employees who are included,Moreover we cannot rule out that some of these sim cards may have been used for terror activities. (TS)
