The accused used to dupe U.K.-based citizens by posing as govt. officialsThe Delhi police have arrested 21 people after busting an illegal international call centre in west Delhi’s Naraina. The accused used to allegedly dupe U.K.-based citizens by posing as revenue and custom officials of that country, the police said on Sunday. The employees at the call centre in Naraina Industrial Area approached U.K.-based citizens through phone service over the Internet (VoIP) and posed as HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, United Kingdom) officials. They then duped them claiming that discrepancies were found in the audit of their income tax.

Source: The Hindu June 06, 2021 17:10 UTC