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| India busts fake call center duping Americans |
| 2018-12-22 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian police nabbedMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Friday 126 people working for an allegedly fake call center making up to $50,000 a day by duping US citizens, officials said. India became the global call centre capital in the early 2000s as foreign firms, drawn by an educated and cheaper English-speaking workforce, farmed out jobs answering customer phone enquiries. The suspects arrested in Noida outside Delhi would tell Americans there were problems with their social security numbers and solicit money to fix it, police said. Another scam was telling people they had committed tax offences and that they had to pay to settle, Noida police official Ajay Pal Sharma told AFP. "Your warrant is on my desk and if this issue is not resolved we will have to freeze your account and put you behind the bars," one caller is heard to say in a recording made available to AFP. In Indian-accented English, he says that the man can either fight the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) in court and face a $75,000 fine as a "tax defrauder" or pay immediately an "out-of-court settlement". "Many responded to the call and fell for their trap," Sharma said. The local authorities have also contacted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and shared the details of the case. The call center had been in operation for three years. Around 300 computers were seized. Mumbai police in October 2016 detained more than 770 people suspected of defrauding Americans by impersonating IRS agents and demanding payments. The US Justice Department subsequently charged 61 people for involvement in India-based schemes that defrauded nearly 15,000 US citizens. Later in April 2017 they arrested the alleged criminal mastermind of the racket, 24-year-old Sagar Thakkar, who was making more than $155,000 a day at the height of the scam. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 ...particularly in an election year. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-22 14:36 |
| #3 Death penalty for spammers and scammers! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-12-22 09:27 |
| #2 The FBI prefers to investigate Trump for imaginary crimes and ignores real crimes like these involving millions of US citizens. Meanwhile all the #%@ political hacks make our simple tool of a telephone useless each election season. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-12-22 01:42 |
| #1 Meanwhile the list of spoofed fake caller ID numbers continues to pile up on my ZTE cell phone. The phone companies allow this to happen. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-22 00:53 |