How Does Mobile Tower Installation Fraud Take Place?

Mobile Tower Installation is one of the most important things that need to be done by telecom companies to keep the calling going on. The tower installation projects have been given to mobile tower installation companies who search for ideal locations and install towers on behalf of the telecom company. The eases the work and enables the installation of towers in even remote areas. This also helps people with empty space in their plot to utilize them accordingly and get a fixed income from the telecom company as rent each month for letting the tower get installed in their plot. Mobile tower installation gets done frequently in order to improve the communication signal for the public.

But there are many people and companies who take advantage of all these scenarios and do fraud with innocent people who apply for installing towers in their empty plot in order to earn money. 

Mobile tower installation fraud is a mass marketing fraud that is done with several citizens who wish to get the tower installed on their property and fraudsters to ask for some advance money in return for giving them a huge amount in form of monthly rentals. These fraudsters usually target people from all age groups and demographics. India is trying to improve its telecommunication infrastructure in order to fulfill the socio-economic requirement of the country, which has increased the number of criminal activities in this field.

• Fraudsters use the newspaper as their medium for getting the contact details of people who can be the target for these kinds of frauds. They publish advertisements in newspaper columns and online websites through which people who have empty space in their plots can reach them to get a tower installed in their plot. Sometimes these fraudsters also use toll-free numbers to communicate with people who can be their victims.
   
• Fraudsters use fake company names which is very similar to a telecom company. They also improve their websites to make them look genuine and legit.
   
• In the initial stage, they ask the victims to go for some paper works and submit certain documents. They talk in a friendly way so that the victim starts trusting them and shares all the details they ask for. They keep the conversation going for some days and ask for more details from the victim.
   
• Many people from the same company contact the victim to prove that the work they are doing is genuine. They are mere actors who play their part as different people from the company and try to convince the victims that they are a genuine company.
   
• They also say that some engineer will visit their plot to check the location and surface area which in some cases takes place by a conman while in many cases they say that the survey has been done with the help of a satellite or frequency technique.
   
• The next talk they do is about the NOC certification which needs to be cleared from the government and requires money in order to get the NOC cleared at the earliest. They take the money from the victim and run away with it.
   
• In many cases, the fraudsters ask for money in advance to fasten the process and give you an excuse that your number is at such a location and requires rethinking by the telecom company. But in order to get the work done quickly, you need to pay an advance amount.

So the public has to be very much careful when they are trusting companies for Jio Tower Installation. You must check the company before paying any money to fraudsters who cheat innocent people in the name of Mobile Tower Installation.