Fake call centre busted in Gurugram, five women among 9 held

Our Correspondent

Gurugram, June 30

The Gurugram cyber crime police busted yet another fake call centre being run in a rented building of the DLF, Phase 2. The police arrested 9, including 5 women, and seized 1 laptop and 9 CPUs from their possession.

This fake call centre was being operated in a rented building and was allegedly cheating foreign nationals by calling them and posing as members of the Federal Police Department. They threatened them that their national identity number would be suspended. An FIR has been registered.

The cops at the cyber crime police station got a tip-off that a fake call centre was being run from a rented building located near metro pillar number 34 in DLF, Phase 2. A special team under the supervision of Sanjeev Balhara, ACP, DLF, conducted raid at the building today, where men and women were busy on computers and laptop. A majority of them were busy making calls in English using their headphones and working on their systems. They did not possess any valid OSP licences of the Department of Telecommunications or any other agreement/MoU related to their work, said the police.

The police have arrested 9, including the manager and 5 women. “On interrogating them, the accused revealed that the call centre owner, David, put the data of foreign customers on the VICI Dialer. The data was used by the call centre employees to call foreign nationals, pretending to be a member of the Federal Police Department. They then threatened them that their National Identity Number would be suspended and then duped them. We are trying to nab the owner,” said ACP Balhara.

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