A fake call center in Gujarat has been exposed, which was operating with the intent of defrauding American citizens. Authorities have arrested ten individuals in connection with this operation.
These include romance scams, phone scams, mass-mailing fraud schemes, and tech-support fraud schemes.
The Haryana chief minister's flying squad busted another illegal call centre operating in Udyog Vihar, Phase-5 in Gurugram.
During a raid conducted late Thursday night, the police arrested these people who were working in different illegal call centres in the satellite township of Salt Lake.
A fake call centre was busted in Delhi's Moti Nagar area by the Police on Friday. As per reports, the police arrested several employees besides seizing 55 computers and 35 mobile phones.
Seven persons were arrested in the US on Thursday for their alleged involvement in scam that victimised over 2,000 American nationals, resulting in over USD 5.5 million in losses.
Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a call centre in Mira Road area and arrested seven people, Assistant Superintendent of Police Atul Kulkarni said.
In October 2016, the Thane Police had busted a multi-crore fake call centre scam wherein US-based taxpayers were allegedly conned by Indian telecallers.
“The stiff sentences imposed represent the culmination of the first-ever large scale, multi-jurisdiction prosecution targeting the India call center scam industry,” US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
"The stiff sentences imposed represent the culmination of the first-ever large scale, multi-jurisdiction prosecution targeting the India call center scam industry," US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
An Indian American woman has pleaded guilty to her involvement in multi-million dollar call centre scam in the United States.
The police has arrested the alleged mastermind of the scam in which thousands of Americans were defrauded to the tune of nearly Rs 2000 crore by reaching them via fake call centre posing as US officials to extort money from them.
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