Another call center duping US citizens/NRI’s raided in Ahmedabad, 19 nabbed

Ahmedabad: Close on heels to the raid on a fake international call center in Chandkeda area of the city, the cyber cell of the crime branch of Ahmedabad police today again raided another such call center in Vastrapur area involved in duping US citizens and NRI people and nabbed 19 persons including six ladies in this connection.

The call center situated in maurya atria complex in Bodakdev was involved in duping US and NRI people living in the US by collecting various personal data including tax related information about them. It has reportedly done such illegal transaction of more than Rs 60 crore in last few months.

34 CPU’s, 21 mobile phones and 3 laptops and other things were recovered from the spot.

Later crime branch JCP J K Bhatt said that the call center started around seven months was working on the same modus operandi as many other such call centers raided in recent past. They used to make the US citizens and NRI’s make payments to them misusing personal information collected by them fraudulently. Various aspects of the matter were being investigated in detail.

On November 19 the crime branch had raided a fake international call center involved in duping American people and arrested around 10 persons including the main operator of the call center in Chandkheda area of the city. Calls from it were made to US tax defaulters in the name of Internal Revenue Service (the US equivalent of Indian Income Tax department) to make them pay money.

Notably Around 100 arrests have so far been made in connection with such call centers since the revelation of first such scam in Mumbai in October this year.

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