Monday, 13 MAY 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The police busted a fraudulent call centre situated in the Patelnagar area of Dehradun and apprehended a man and a woman on the weekend. The arrested accused scammed people living in foreign countries by pretending to fix issues on their computers and obtained gift cards and crypto currencies from them as payments. The arrested accused were identified as Haryana native Vivek Kumar and West Bengal native Nikita who had allegedly employed 15 people in Dehradun to run a call centre inside a commercial complex, Dehradun senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh said. He said that the police conducted a raid after getting confidential information about the call centre. The 15 employees who were found at the call centre included eight women and seven men who told the police that they worked for Vivek and Nikita. According to them, they used to call foreigners claiming to be support staff of a software company and send them virus infected emails along with their numbers. “When their targets would call them, they would access the computers using a software and get access to their banking details apart from asking for payments in gift cards and crypto,” Singh said. He informed that the police also recovered 14 laptops with chargers, several headphones, seven mobile phones and other equipment related to the broadband connection. Besides this, the police also found seven scripts which were being used for fraud by the callers at the call centre. The police are investigating their criminal history and for how long they have been scamming people. The SSP said that the police have registered a case in the Patelnagar police station under sections 321/24 and 120B/420 of the Indian Penal Code and section 75/66C/66D of the Information Technology Act. The accused will be presented before the court soon, he added.
