The Gurugram Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a fake call centre in Udyog Vihar. This call centre cheated foreign nationals on the pretext of technical help and took several dollars as a service charge.
Two accused have been arrested and an FIR was filed against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, including IT Act at the Cyber Crime police station.
A team of the cybercrime department raided the call centre at Plot number 272, Udyog Vihar Phase 4 after a tip-off. The team recovered Rs 3 crore in three bank accounts of the accused. These accounts have been seized, police said.
The police have also seized one laptop and other electronic gadgets from the accused. The arrested accused have been identified as Amit Chauhan (30) of Sector-42, Gurugram who is a B.tech graduate and Sumit Kumar (24) of Jind in Haryana who is an accountant.
Nearly 50 employees were employed in the call centre. According to the police, the employees working here told their respective families that they were working in a call centre of the Tour and Travels Company.
"A complaint was received that a fake call centre had cheated several people on the pretext of technical help. The case was assigned to the cybercrime branch of Gurugram for investigation. The culprits were employed at the call centres, which were being operated without permission," said Karan Goyal, Assistant Commissioner of Police (DLF).
"During the questioning, the accused revealed that they used to send bulk messages, pop-ups and mail to their clients via server for technical assistance and to resolve the issue they charged fees via Paypal gateway from their clients, he said.
