Illegal call centre busted, seven arrested

An illegal call centre that was operating from a commercial building in Palam Vihar was busted on Wednesday morning and seven persons were arrested for allegedly duping US citizens of money over the last four months, the police said.

Callers posed as officials of law enforcement agencies and threatened to cancel their social security numbers (SSN) if they did not pay a fine, officials said. Data of US citizens, one laptop, one hard disk and ₹1.90 lakh were recovered from their possession. The police said that at least 2,000 people based in the US were targeted.

A case was registered on Wednesday at Cyber police station under sections 420 (cheating), 120B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 66D and 75 of the IT Act.