Call Centre Con

A racket duping people by offering them two cellphones for Rs 4,500 and delivering soaps or wallets instead was busted in Delhi's Rohini area as police arrested 53 people, 46 of them women.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly conning US-based customers through a call centre in the city's Topsia area by impersonating as officials of tech giant Microsoft, police said on Friday.

With the arrest of seven people, police today busted a gang which allegedly duped people living in the US and other countries by telling them that they need to pay tax dues, an official said.

Elections in Gujarat will be called now that the festival season has ended and major relief and rescue work for the floods that deluged parts of the state has been completed, said Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti to NDTV today

Two persons have been detained from Ahmedabad in connection with the multi-crore fake call centre scam wherein US-based taxpayers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers, police said on Tuesday.

A Mumbai businessman who 'mentored' Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy, the alleged mastermind of the multi-million dollar fake call center racket, wherein US-based taxpayers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers, has been arrested, police said today.

Investigation into the call centre racket in Thane wherein US-based tax payers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers posing as tax officers has led Thane Police to suspect involvement of the son of a senior IPS officer from Gujarat.

Just one month into his well-paying job, Rakesh (name changed) decided to quit. The reason, he says, was that he found out that he was really being used to cheat aged American citizens and extort money from them by pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service.

Four more call centres in Thane's Mira Road were raided and one person arrested, days after police swooped on three other call centres for allegedly conning American nationals by posing as US taxmen, police said today.

The Thane police, which busted an international racket being run from a Mira Road call centre that placed calls to US citizens posing as IRS officials, said several of those arrested are college dropouts or unemployed youths, who stayed in the job for the handsome salary.

Employees of a Malad-based call centre have written an application to the Bangur Nagar police, alleging that a colleague duped each of them of more than Rs 1 lakh, on the pretext of offering them lucrative jobs.

A racket duping people by offering them two cellphones for Rs 4,500 and delivering soaps or wallets instead was busted in Delhi's Rohini area as police arrested 53 people, 46 of them women.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly conning US-based customers through a call centre in the city's Topsia area by impersonating as officials of tech giant Microsoft, police said on Friday.

With the arrest of seven people, police today busted a gang which allegedly duped people living in the US and other countries by telling them that they need to pay tax dues, an official said.

Elections in Gujarat will be called now that the festival season has ended and major relief and rescue work for the floods that deluged parts of the state has been completed, said Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti to NDTV today

Two persons have been detained from Ahmedabad in connection with the multi-crore fake call centre scam wherein US-based taxpayers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers, police said on Tuesday.

A Mumbai businessman who 'mentored' Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy, the alleged mastermind of the multi-million dollar fake call center racket, wherein US-based taxpayers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers, has been arrested, police said today.

Investigation into the call centre racket in Thane wherein US-based tax payers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers posing as tax officers has led Thane Police to suspect involvement of the son of a senior IPS officer from Gujarat.

Just one month into his well-paying job, Rakesh (name changed) decided to quit. The reason, he says, was that he found out that he was really being used to cheat aged American citizens and extort money from them by pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service.

Four more call centres in Thane's Mira Road were raided and one person arrested, days after police swooped on three other call centres for allegedly conning American nationals by posing as US taxmen, police said today.

The Thane police, which busted an international racket being run from a Mira Road call centre that placed calls to US citizens posing as IRS officials, said several of those arrested are college dropouts or unemployed youths, who stayed in the job for the handsome salary.

Employees of a Malad-based call centre have written an application to the Bangur Nagar police, alleging that a colleague duped each of them of more than Rs 1 lakh, on the pretext of offering them lucrative jobs.