New Delhi: Delhi’s crime branch has broken down two fake call centers targeting US citizens and arresting more than 90 people, officials said on Wednesday.
The call center is located in Kirti Nagar and Mangolpuri, they said.
The police were told that the illegal call center operating from the Kirti Nagar area was indulging in large-scale cyber cheating for US citizens under the revocation of social security numbers (SSN) in Garb travel agents called global flights, a senior police said.
Around 8:30 a.m.
on Tuesday, the police team stormed the place and found around 20-25 people who communicated with the victims.
“Later it will be found that they imitate the Department of Administration of Social Security, US and involved in using illegal techniques, VoIP calls, past the international distance gateway (ILD) and deceived US citizens with the pretext of their suspension of SSN,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Manoj C said.
As many as 30 people, including three women, were involved in the gang and used upscale technical software to make calls appear as the original US figure, they said.
Amit Tyagi (25), a resident of Burari, introduced himself as the owner of the call center, police said.
Amit further recognizes that he runs the same long distance call center in Mangolpuri using the Cloud Server.
After that, the police raided the call center and found 67 people, including 16 women and two teenagers.
The defendant was involved in deceiving US citizens with the pretext of SSN’s suspension under the Garb of Teleone’s e-commerce agency, police said.
Then, Amit said that one Vinay Tyagi, a resident of Kirti Nagar, was his partner.
Amit cannot produce any authority or license to run this call center.
The defendant will ask the prospective target to buy a gift card and provide information to the supervisor about the call to resume their account, police said.
This gift coupon is shared with someone abroad who will change this and connect it to the account accused of deposits, police said.
A total of 82 desktops, five laptops, 84 cellphones and 48 ID cards were confiscated from the place, police said, added that further investigation was taking place.