Delhi Police has busted a fake call centre and arrested eight people for allegedly duping foreign nationals by posing as members of the technical support team of Amazon and PayPal.
Police said that the call centre was running in Delhi's Jamia Nagar area. According to Esha Pandey, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Southeast district, after receiving a tip-off about fake international call centre, the police conducted a raid at the premises. “The accused tried to escape but they were later arrested. Two accused, including owner of call centre, were apprehended from their residence. Further investigation is underway to nab associates of the accused," said DCP.
“The accused told the police that they ran the centre to earn a quick buck. The accused disclosed that they had duped several people, mostly US citizens, by posing as executives of Amazon Inc and PayPal,” said the DCP.
Elaborating upon their modus operandi, the accused told police that they managed to get fake ads of technical support containing their virtual toll-free numbers, displayed on top of the browsed pages.
In lieu of providing tech support, the accused made the victims purchase a fake antivirus software and the payment was received via gift cards of Amazon, Google Pay, Target, etc, police said.
So far, transactions of approximately Rs 35 lakhs have been verified from the computer seized from the centre, police added.Ten mobile phones, seven laptops, six keyboards, six computer monitors, four CPUs and one WiFi router with modem have been seized by the police, police said.