Con call center being operated from vehicles to dupe US citizens busted in Ahmedabad, 5 nabbed

Ahmedabad: Close on heels of the busting of many con call centers in Ahmedabad involved in duping US citizen, the crime branch of Ahmedabad police has now caught five fraudsters who were running such a call center in four wheeler in Vatva area.

Police today said that five youths identified as Anuj (25), Deepak Banvari (24), Abhishek (24), Saurabh (21) and Vivek (24) were nabbed from three four wheeler vehicles including two cars and a SUV. They were running the con call center in vehicles in an attempt to fool the city police which was conducting continuous search operations and raids on them.

They used to get data about US citizens and using devices like magic jack duped them posing as tax officials.

Nine mobile phones, wi fi devices and other equipment have been recovered from them. The raid was conducted yesterday while they had parked their vehicles, from which the con call center was being run, on road-side in Sadbhavana nagar area.

Notably, around 2 dozen fraudsters including at least two women were nabbed during raids to bust 3 such call centers in different areas of the city last month.

Meanwhile, the city police has also nabbed 3 persons for running a betting center in Chandkheda area. A laptop, mobile phone and other articles were seized from a house in a society in Jagatpur last night for betting on the IPL match between Gujarat lions and KKR in Rajkot.

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