Five people arrested for running fake call centre
The Hindu
They had duped foreigners by offering tech support: police
Five people, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly running an illegal call centre and duping citizens of foreign countries by impersonating themselves as representatives of a tech support company in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, the police said on Friday. The owner of the call centre, Pritpal Singh (35), and his associates Mayank (26), Chandan Gupta (24), Subham Kumar (22), and HR head Kinkini Das (35) were operating from the third floor of a building in Panchsheel Vihar, they said. Based on a tip off, the police conducted a raid at the illegal call centre on Thursday and arrested the accused. They were allegedly targeting foreign citizens, mainly from the USA, on the pretext of giving them tech support saying their systems were under a cyber threat, the police said.
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