3 held for running illegal call centres, defrauding US citizens

The Delhi Police has arrested three men for allegedly running illegal call centres and defrauding senior citizens based in the US on the pretext of providing them with technology support against “malfunctioning” of their computers.

The accused, identified as Jatin Lamba, Harshad Madaan and Vikas Gupta, were held in Delhi after police conducted overnight raids, whereas their counterpart Jayant Bhatia was arrested by Canadian Law Enforcement Agency from Toronto and Kulwinder Singh was arrested by the FBI, USA from New Jersey, they said.

Police said Jatin Lamba with his brother Gagan Lamba was running a company from Ganesh Nagar, New Delhi camouflaging as a tech support company and used to run call centres that targeted US citizens.