Fake call centre busted in Gurugram, two held

Haryana Chief Minister’s flying squad late on Tuesday night busted an illegal call centre operating in Sector-28 in Gurugram.

The call centre mostly used to cheat US nationals on the pretext of to resolve Social Security Number (SSN) verification and used to charge 100 to 500 dollars as service charge per client, the police said on Wednesday.

The accused had also paid `2.50 lakh as house rent for two months. According to the police a SSN is a nine-digit number that the U.S. government issues to all U.S. citizens. The government uses this number to keep track of the resident’s lifetime earnings and the number of years worked.