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US shuts India-based call centre operation that defrauded elderly AmericansUS authorities have dismantled an India-based call centre scam. Hundreds of elderly Americans lost millions to tech support fraud. The inve...
'Special 24': How a Ghaziabad gang led by an MBA graduate scammed US citizensA group of 24 individuals, including Ankur Gupta, an MBA graduate, has been arrested for operating a call centre in Ghaziabad. The call cen...
Call Centre scamming US, Canada nationals busted in GurugramThe accused scammed foreign nationals of $500 to $1000 dollars each through pop-ups offering tech support, police said.
Another Indian national sentenced by US court in sophisticated call centre scamThe Department of Justice said Mehboob Mansurali Charania took part in a sophisticated scheme organised in India, that included a network o...
15 people, including five Indian BPOs, indicted in massive call centre scam in USIndian call centres used various telephone fraud schemes to defraud mainly vulnerable Americans
Call centre scam targeting foreign taxpayers unearthedExplaining the gang’s modus operandi, police said the accused obtained financial details of foreign nationals such as loans they had taken ...
Thane Police to seek details of call centre scam in USA team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had visited Thane in 2016 and met police officials after the scam came to light.
Indian, Indian-American plead guilty in US call centre scamUpon payment, the call centres would immediately turn to a network of "runners" based in the US to liquidate and launder the fraudulently-o...
2 Indian-Americans plead guilty in US call centre scamBhavesh Patel, 47, from Arizona and Asmitaben Patel, 34, from Illinois pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering of...
Mastermind Sagar Thakkar's aide arrested in Delhi in IRS call centre scamThe accused was instrumental in handling and redeeming iTunes gift cards purchased by the victims following threat calls from call centres ...
Indian national pleads guilty to call centres scam in USHarsh Patel, who most recently lived in New Jersey, is the third Indian national to have pleaded guilty to this scam that targeted hundreds...
Indian national pleads guilty to call centres scam in USAshvinbhai Chaudhari, who most recently resided in Texas pleaded guilty before US District Court Judge David Hittner of the Southern Distri...
How a 24-year-old pulled off a 'Special 26' to fool scores of gullible AmericansThakkar's scam, the details of which are still emerging, could be bigger than the famous Mumbai Opera House scam of 1987 that inspired Spec...
$300-million fake call centre scam mastermind arrested in MumbaiThe scam, which operated since 2013 through at least half a dozen call centres in Thane, targeted at least 15,000 US-based tax payers, who ...
Thane call centre scam tip of iceberg, police probing 4 more similar fraudsInformation is based on revelations by an arrested accused, close to the multi-crore scam alleged kingpin Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy, the o...
15,000 victims, $300 million scam! US charges 61 over India-based IRS impersonation scamPayments by victims were laundered by a US network of co-conspirators using prepaid debit cards or wire transfers, often using stolen or fa...
Thane call centre scam: Two detained from AhmedabadBesides Kanani, about 70 directors and key persons of these call centres have been arrested and over 700 people have been detained so far.
Fake call centre scam mastermind Thakkar's 'mentor' arrestedThe 33-year-old man, identified as Jagdish Kanani was arrested from suburban Borivali last night, a senior police officer said on the condi...
Call centre scam: Cops probing Dubai link to trace crime moneyAn officer of US security agency FBI had yesterday met senior officials of Thane Police and exchanged information gathered by both the side...
Call centre scam: FBI officer in Thane to get detailsThe American security and crime-fighting agency came into picture after it emerged that the victims of the call centre racket were US citiz...