Bogus call centre busted in Gurugram

Our Correspondent

Gurugram, April 20

The Gurugram cybercrime police busted yet another fake call centre being run from a rented house in South City 1, Sector 51, and arrested 14 persons, including three women and four partners, here today.

The police have also recovered 14 laptops, nine cellphones and Rs 1,13,930 cash from the employees.

This fake call centre, operational since March 1, has five partners. Posing as Microsoft employees, they were duping foreigners through pop-ups offering technical support, hardware upgrade and antivirus etc.

Inspector Samer Singh of the cybercrime police station got a tip-off, following which he along with the help of a Sector 40 police team raided the building this morning. They found 14 employees working on computers and laptops, a majority of them were busy making calls in English. The employees, however, didn’t possess any valid OSP licence of the Department of Telecommunications or any other agreement/MoU related to their work.

The arrested owners are Karan Sharma, Mayank Nath, Rahul Bhati and Mohit Bajaj, while the fifth partner, Rajat Juneja, was out of city.

The other accused had been identified as Nikita, Simran, Ankit Singh, Rahul, Mukesh, Lovish Sehgal, Priyal, Abhishek, Vishwas and Gurpreet Chawla, all residents of Delhi, said the police.

Following the complaint of Inspector Samer, an FIR has been registered against the accused under Sections 419 and 120B of the IPC and Sections 66D and 75 of the Information Technology Act at the Sector 40 police station.

“The accused trapped foreigners to clear pop-ups and provide antivirus in the name of technical help after posing as Microsoft employees. They asked the US nationals to purchase iTunes gift cards and then took their number and redeemed. We are conducting raids to nab the fifth partner and questioning the arrested accused,” said Virender Vij, DCP (East).

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