Fake call centre busted, in Gurugram, 4 arrested

Gurugram: Four persons were arrested for allegedly running a fake call centre with the intention to dupe people in foreign countries, including the United States and Europe. The call center was operational in Udyog Vihar Phase-5. "Four of the arrested had assumed fake names. We are investigating the number of persons they duped and the amount involved. The center was running for many months," said Subash Boken, the Gurugram police spokesperson.

"The employees made calls to the US and offered loans, charging $700-800 for each case," Boken said.

This is not for the first time when such fake call centers have been busted in Gurugram. In one of the biggest police operations conducted in January, over 10 call centers were raided leading to the arrest of 33 persons. They were also following the same modus operandi of duping the foreign clients.

With 200 crimes registered on monthly basis in Gurugram district, over 3,252 cases were registered in 2017. These were way above the previous figures of 2,402 cases filed in 2016. Like the previous year, in 2017 also crimes committed in forms of online banking thefts, credit and debit card frauds remained the highest in the city.