The Mumbai police crime branch busted a major fake call centre racket and arrested 14 people, including a computer engineer, from two different offices in Malad on Thursday night. Interestingly, the owners of the Malad call centre had worked in the Mira Road one. The employees would send messages to US citizens, posing as treasury department officials, and ask them to pay “tax dues”. “They would send at least 1,000 messages in a day and even if 50 people called back, the staff would dupe them,” a senior crime branch officer said. All the accused are residents of Mumbai and have worked in various call centres in the city for several years.

Source: Hindustan Times November 03, 2017 16:07 UTC