Call centre defrauding US nationals busted

Employees of a call centre in Maniktala allegedly duped many people in the US in the guise of software service providers, by coaxing them into installing a software that would install spyware in their computers and give away their banking details, police said.

Five persons were arrested in connection with the fraud on Thursday. They are Sheikh Alauddin, 22, Sahil Alam, 21, Hemnat Kumar Prasad, 22, Sumit Pal, 25 and Ankit Jaiswal, 22.

“Several US nationals have been duped by this gang, whose members claimed to their intended victims that they provided solutions to software-related problems. They used to make VoiP calls using 38 computers in their call centre,” said an officer of Maniktala police station.