Gang running fake call centre busted; 4 held

The Delhi Police has busted an international cyber fraud gang running a fake call centre for duping unemployed youths on fake promise of providing them with work from home roles with an e-commerce company, officials said on Monday. Four accused — Amit Kedia (30), Sachin Gupta (36), Rohit Jain (36) and Pradeep Kumar (34) — were arrested, police said, adding that the kingpin of the gang, Gulati, operates from Dubai. The accused impersonating as officials of the e-commerce firm hadprocured details of job seekers from various online job providing portals such as Naukri.Com and Shine.Com, they said. The matter came to light after a complaint was received from a woman who alleged that she received a message from an unknown mobile number.