Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a fake international call centre in west Delhi’s Naraina with the arrest of 21 people. The accused would allegedly call UK-based citizens posing as officials of the UK government and dupe them threatening of tax violations.
The call centre was busted in a raid on Thursday following a tip-off .
Deputy commissioner of police (west) Urvija Goel said the arrested employees revealed they used to approached UK-based citizens via VoIP, posing as Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, United Kingdom officials. They would threaten the targets of government regulations.
The cops have recovered 34 computers, optical fibre routers, LAN servers, Wi-Fi routers, Wi-Fi-switches, mobile phones and evidence of foreign payment gateways, fraud bank accounts and data of lakhs of income taxpayers of United Kingdom.
Police have also found that these fraudsters are suspected to have links abroad who helped them acquire the data of and assisted with international payment gateways. TNN
