New Delhi: Fake call center deceiving US citizens by posing as a representative of Microsoft has been arrested in Moti Nagar Delhi Barat and nine people have been arrested.
Gang send false pop-ups such as “detected ransomware”, “security warnings” etc.
and then contact the target that offers to resolve this problem instead of money.
Cyber cells have received information about some people running an international online cheating racket in Sudarshan Park in Moti Nagar in an organized way.
“It also came to note that fraudsters were involved in using illegal techniques, VoIP calls, passing legitimate international long-distance gateways and thus causing incorrect losses to government services while making money illegally,” said Urvija Goel, DCP (West).
The mounted and intelligence surveillance was developed on syndicates, which revealed that they deceived people based abroad (US / Canada) with a false pretext to give them technical support by pretending to be a member of the Microsoft / Windows / Windows team.
Therefore, a team led by Inspector Arun Chauhan was formed to arrest criminals involved in the racket.
The team invaded the flat where some people were found involved in making and receiving calls.
International numbers are being displayed on many screens installed on their desktop.
Nine people were detained from the place.
Six of them claimed to be the owner, while three said they had been employed as Tele callers.
The defendant was in the age group.
As long as it was questioned, it was revealed that the defendant, through their pop-up vendor, sent a fake pop-up on the target computer and instructed them to call the telephone number specified in the pop-up to pay for technical support to resolve the threat.
“The telephone number given is a fake call center,” Goel said.
The victims were made to pay the number through e-checks, which were withdrawn in a bank account based in the US from overseas contact.
The police have confiscated six computers, laptops, nine phones, routers, fraud scripts, telecommunications software, VoIP dialers.
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