Kolkata: Three illegal call centers – all operate in the KeshTPOUR housing environment – sealed by Bidhannagar police on Wednesday.
In calling centers, 200 strange men and women have made fraud calls to people, offering them jobs with registration fees and the installation of cell towers on the terrace of their home or empty property.
A total of 12 their officials, including a woman, were arrested.
The police have damaged a similar racket also last year.
Getting into the case of Wednesday, the police found several employees of these offices who were sealed last year, have honed their skills and have opened their own fresh fraud call centers and have begun to deceive customers from the old database available with them.
“The caller will introduce ourselves as a representative of the telecommunications operator and randomly calls people who ask whether they have empty plots or empty places on their terrace where they can install cellphones.
On other occasions, they will pose when Irda officials are willing to Complete disputed insurance bonds or sometimes as officials who will manage easy personal loans to minimum documents.
They will also pose as employers who offer work to people who might lose their jobs during a pandemic.
Once the victims fall in traps, they are attractive They are to pay their fees as registration and many other fraud fees, “said a senior officer of Bidhannagar Commissioner.
On Wednesday, acting on a tip, the police first raided a building in the western Profulla in KeshTPOUR and found 25 men and women who made fraud calls in illegal call centers.
It caused the second attack in another office two blocks away on the ground floor of a building where the police found 55 employees operating from other illegal call centers.
The third illegal office opened in another housing building a few blocks away where 100 men and women called.
The police seized computer hard disks, cellphones, registers of attendance and a large number of data sheets from their ownership.