CBI busts fake call centre which duped US citizens; recovers gadgets, foreign money

The CBI conducted searches in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR) and busted a fake tech-support call centre that allegedly defrauded US citizens online.

The CBI recovered gadgets, foreign currencies and more than Rs 3 crore during the searches at four locations in Delhi-NCR in, officials said on Thursday.

They said the case is related to a CBI FIR registered on June 10 last year against Harish Kumar, Amit Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Athotra and Raj Kumari for allegedly cheating US citizens by taking controls of their computers in the garb of tech support.