Noida: The police on Thursday claimed to have solved a fake call center in Gautam Budh Nagar, which has been operating from a commercial building in the Tech Zone IV (West) area for the past year.
About 32 people, most visitors and college graduates, were arrested for allegedly deceiving US citizens with the pretext of improving their malware.
According to the police, under Garb from the Direct Cricket Comment website, www.cricplex.com, the defendant has run a call center where internet calls made by US countries to the credit-free number are landing from abroad.
The caller sitting at the Greater Noida (West) office will speak in American accents and convince complainants that they can improve malware in a computer system at a cost.
Noida Cyber Cell Cell Baljeet Singh told Tii, “American internet users will suddenly see the system they receive pop-ups that might be turned off by their computers or laptops to a toll-free number to fix the problem.
The problem will actually be a minor bug.
, which will be implanted by international cyber criminals.
“” Cyber Criminals Sitting here will only buy a number of calls from international players and calls will be directed to the call center in India.
After such a call landed in a larger calling center, the Defendant , which seems to be part of a global racket, will claim to solve malware problems around USD 300-500, “he said.
Cyber Cell officers said that the defendant would request their potential target to buy a Google Play card worth USD 300-500 or make a wire transfer of money from their account based in the US, “said Singh.
ACP-2 (Central Noida) Yogendra Singh said That the owner of the Call Center Deepak Agrawal has made a total profit of Rs 40-50 lakh after paying the monthly salary of his employees.
“The defendant’s caller was paid at least RS 20,000 a month while the Parvinder manager got Rs 1.25 lakh.
Agrawal, who is on our way, makes USD 3K-4K every day.
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Sham Call Center is damaged, 32 captured
