Delhi Police arrests 100 in 2 call centres duping US citizens

Ninety-five people, including 19 women, were arrested for allegedly running two fraud call centres in Delhi’s Kirti Nagar and Mangolpuri from where they contacted the US citizens impersonating as officials of the country’s social security administration and duped them of their money by threatening to revoke their social security number (SSN), police said .

Senior officers said the employees of the call centre used to call citizens in the United States of America and dupe them posing as employees of the Social Security Administration Department, USA. Police believe the two call centres have so far duped several US citizens worth crores of rupees which were extorted from them as gift cards or cryptocurrencies.

A total of 82 computers, five laptops, 84 mobile phones and 48 identity cards were seized from the two call centres following simultaneous raids conducted at both the premises by teams of the crime branch on Tuesday night.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Alok Kunar said that his team had received information that an illegal call centre is being run from a building in Kirti Nagar.

“We were informed that the staff at the call centre indulges in cheating US citizens threatening them to revoke their Social Security Number (SSN) in the garb of a travel agency named The Global Airfares. On this, our team raided the identified premises around 8.30 pm on Tuesday night and caught at least 30 employees working red-handed.

It was further found that they were impersonating as Social Security Administration Department, USA and were using VOIP calling technology to bypass the legal International Long Distance (ILD) Gateways and cheat US citizens on the pretext of saving their Social Security Number (SSN) from being suspended,” Kumar said.