Foreigners cheat crores of rupees by opening fake call center in Salt Lake

 Foreigners cheat crores of rupees by opening fake call center in Salt Lake

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The bogus call center was booming in Salt Lake Sector-Five. From there, citizens of various European countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia, were called as employees of the technical support center of an international software company.

In the name of providing technical support, they were sent software full of viruses and malware. And customers used to suffer using that software. Then they were forced to pay large sums of money. Then get rid of that malware. The fake call center was earning crores of rupees by such fraud. DIG CID Mitesh Jain said on Wednesday, "We received the first complaint from the software company. Our Cyber ​​Crime Suppression Branch started investigating. Five of our teams raided on Tuesday night. ”

State CID officials uncovered five such call centers in Salt Lake Sector-Five during an overnight operation on Tuesday. Fifteen people, including six young women, have been detained. According to CID sources, residents of Vinh State are also among the detainees. Later in the morning 7 people were arrested. One of the investigators said, "We have received complaints from software companies that customers are receiving a pop-up message on their computer." The name of the international software company was written in that message. As a result, people would easily believe and click on that message. As soon as you clicked, the malware crammed into the virus started working. With the help of that virus, the control of the customer's computer would go to the fraudsters. ” After that, they used to call from the call center and demand big money to return the computer to its normal condition.

Investigators said a man named Syed Zafar Imam had been arrested. Initially it is thought that Imam is the panda of the whole cycle. The role of the other 6 people in his company is also being investigated. The seven arrested were produced in Alipore court on the same day. They have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for fraud and forgery. Added to that is the Information Technology Act.

The Cyber ​​Crime Division of the Kolkata Police recently caught a similar scam. Siddhartha Banthia, the main panda of the cycle, was arrested. It was learned that Siddhartha also cheated about 23,000 customers in England by opening a fake call center in the same way. Although the London police did not find the whereabouts of the fraudsters, based on the allegations made by the international software company, the Kolkata police found the whereabouts of the call centers at Sarat Bose Road and Tapasia. The commissioner of London police also praised the detectives of Kolkata police for exposing the fraud.

According to CID sources, in addition to Siddhartha's company, there are other fake call centers that are cheating foreign customers. From that source, the call center was identified mainly from money transactions from abroad.