A gang of 150 girls looted women across the country by luring them with weight loss: Gurugram-based company looted Rs 80 crore by putting an ad on Facebook, Surati girl lost Rs 1.77 crore while trying to lose weight

The Surat Cyber Crime Branch has busted a nationwide scam, whose modus operandi will shock even the best technocrats. An officially registered company named "CUREST SCIENCE WELLNESS PRIVATE LIMITED" was opened by renting a luxurious office in the industrial area of Gurugram (Gurgaon) in Haryana. The corporate office had a high-tech call centre equipped with more than 150 young men and women. Every day, thousands of calls were made to innocent women across the country. Separate teams were formed inside the call centre, which included around 150 women callers and 20 men, who were luring people by putting weight loss ads on Facebook and using the wrong protocols of the medical world. A housewife from Surat was scrolling through the social media platform Facebook when she came across a very attractive and professional advertisement for weight loss. The gang then snatched Rs 1.77 crore by luring him to lose weight. However, on June 30, Surat police nabbed a high-tech gang from Gurugram. It has been revealed that a Gurugram-based company has committed a scam of Rs 80 crore by placing ads on Facebook across the country. The girl clicked on the advertisement and was trapped. A housewife from Surat clicked on the advertisement and submitted her number. Just this one click pushed him into the trap of interstate cyber thugs. Immediately, the women advisors from the call centre contacted the housewife through WhatsApp and gave a strong presentation by sending details of her official website curestscience.in claiming that their company was 'Curious Science and Wellness'. Fake doctors and a big deck of body profiling Arslan, a cyber thug sitting in the call centre, used the art of changing his voice to convince a woman from Surat. Along with the housewife, he once met the country's well-known expert. M. K. "Khanna" is sometimes referred to as "Dr. 'Akash Malhotra,' I said in different voices. The call centre's tele-callers, Heena (who identified herself as Tanvi Sharma) and Nisha Kumari (who took the name Priya Gupta), explained to the housewife that the company's specialist doctors were giving her proper consultation. A fake medical file and body profile of the housewife were created so that she felt that everything was being done in a very scientific manner. 'Special courier' collects cash from Delhi to Surat The most bizarre and shocking modus operandi of this gang was that they avoided taking money in the bank account so that no online tracking could be found. A total of Rs 1,77,40,500 was extorted from a housewife in Surat in the last five months (from January 26 to May 2026) by sending different medicine kits. Surprisingly, only Rs 15,000 of these was transferred online, while the rest were more than Rs 1.77 crore in cash. To collect the money, the gang's main members, Mohammed Hussain alias Rahul Raj and Om Prakash Razak, used to come to Surat with a by-flight parcel from Delhi, go to the housewife's house, give medicines and bags and take them back to Delhi by a cash flight worth crores. Blackmailed by demanding more than Rs 81 lakh Even after snatching crores of rupees, the hunger of the fraudsters could not be satisfied. He started demanding an additional Rs 81,50,000 from the housewife. The cyber thugs started mentally torturing the housewife and threatened, "If you do not give this Rs 81.50 lakh, your medical file will be closed forever, the medicine you have taken so far will have a side effect and all the crores of rupees you have given before will be drowned." He mustered up courage and approached Surat Cyber Crime DCP Vishakha Jain. Surat Police's 'Operation Net': Trap set up with dummy payment of Rs 81 lakh Eddie. CP Dr. Under the guidance of Karanrajsinh Vaghela, the Surat Cyber Crime team made an immediate action plan. A special team of police was deployed at the victim's house in plain clothes. The housewife was offered Rs 81 lakh to talk to the accused. The courier boy of the gang, Mohammed Hussain alias Rahul Raj, took a flight from Delhi as usual and reached Surat to deliver a parcel of spurious medicine and take Rs 81 lakh in cash. As soon as he went to the housewife's house to collect a bag full of notes, he was caught red-handed by the Surat Cyber Police, who were hiding. Mega raid on Gurugram office, call centre sealed During the rigorous interrogation of courier boy Mohammed Hussain, who was arrested in Surat, he leaked the address of the entire call centre in Gurugram. The team of Surat Cyber Cell, which had gone to Delhi in advance, immediately reached Gurugram and raided the call centre of Currest Science and Wellness in the middle of the night along with the local police. When the police entered, the entire centre was buzzing. The police arrested head callers Heena and Nisha Kumari from there who were constantly calling the housewife and pressuring her to keep the money ready. The company has swindled Rs 80 crore Officials have also been puzzled to see the financial transactions of the gang in the police investigation. The company was registered in the year 2021 and was running fraud operation since 2022. Only Rs 8.5 crore (Rs 8,30,95,532) has been found in his official bank account, but the number of cash transactions is skyrocketing. Meet the target of 2 crore per month During the interrogation of the accused, it was found that they used to meet the cash target of Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 2 crore per month only in the three months from March to May 2026. Surat police arrest 4 people, including 2 women, in raid in Gurugram Surat police have arrested 4 accused who are currently in police remand. The gang includes Mohammed Hussain, who collects crores of rupees in cash through flights, Heena, the main telecaller who traps women, Nisha Kumari, a graduate who gives advice by posing as a false assistant to a doctor, and courier boy Om Prakash, who launders lakhs of cash. The police have seized a large quantity of laptops, mobiles and spurious drugs from the gang operating from different states of the country and further legal action is being taken. Key directors still absconding, crimes registered in Delhi, Rajasthan The company's chief directors, Amit Gaurav and Pankaj Sharma (Chief Administration Officer) and manager Deepak, are still on the run. The gang was not limited to Gujarat. An investigation of the Central Cyber Crime Portal (NCCRP) has revealed that as many as four complaints of serious cyber fraud have already been registered against the mobile numbers of the same company in Delhi and Rajasthan. Due to this successful operation by the Surat police, an FIR has also been filed against the company in the Gurugram Commissionerate under various sections of the IT Act Section 66 (D) and Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Surat Police's special appeal: Beware of online ads Eddie. CP Dr. Karanraj Singh Vaghela has made a special appeal to women across the country, including Surat, not to blindly believe any such misleading advertisements on social media (Facebook, Instagram) about weight loss, slimming or whitening. Medical treatment should always be done by visiting a certified doctor. If a stranger demands a large amount of money, especially 'cash' money, over the phone, then it is 100% fraud. In such a situation, it is necessary to immediately contact the nearest cyber crime police station or the helpline number 1930 without fear.