Cyber police unearths ‘bogus call centres’ in Srinagar

The Cyber Wing of J&K Police has arrested 23 persons for allegedly duping people through bogus call centres in Srinagar City.

“We have arrested 23 persons and likely more people will be apprehended,” SSP Cyber Police, Tahir Ashraf told Greater Kashmir. “We made arrests after hectic and prolong investigations of the case.”

He said the Cyber Police Station Kashmir, Srinagar had received information through reliable sources that some “fake call centres” are running in Kashmir and accordingly the investigation into the matter was taken up.

During the course of investigation, he said, it was found that some individuals were impersonating as executives of multi-national companies under garb of bogus international call centres and duping innocent citizens by offering them technical support and solutions to their software problems.