Mumbai crime branch busts two call centres for committing fraud in name of international share trading

MUMBAI: The city crime branch busted two call centers whose employees would pretend to be calling from Singapore and ask Indians to invest in international share trading.

The call centers would make calls through voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to unsuspecting investors. Interestingly, all the call center employees would use pseudo names while talking to customers, said police.

Two persons, Aditya Maheshwari (40), Nepean Sea Road resident and Giriraj Damanani (39), Churchgate resident, have been arrested for running the call centers.

“We got information that fake call centers were functioning in Malad. We raided two call centers. At one place we found 40 employees while at the other call center there were 35 employees. Most of them were busy making phone calls,” said inspector Vinayak Chavan, in-charge of crime branch’s