Over the past 24 hours, Punjab police have busted two fake call centres based in Mohali operating under the cybercrime division. People settling in foreign countries were targeted by the illegal units operating from Industrial Area Phase-7 and Phase-8B by offering “maintenance services” for computers and electronic items, before tricking them into sending online payments into their bank accounts to get the money. The Cyber Crime Division of the Punjab Police broke up two fake call centres that had been running in Mohali over the past two days in an overnight operation.
According to the Punjab Police, over 155 employees of these call centres were arrested over the weekend. According to the police, the accused made fraudulent calls to individuals living in the United States (US). Those fake call centres were both located in Sector 74 in Mohali and are being operated by Gujarat-based kingpins who are currently evading arrest. As a result of the police investigation, they are being hunted for.
Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav confirmed that he had initiated preliminary investigations that showed fake call centres operating during the nighttime and using the callers to dupe foreign nationals into purchasing gift cards from companies such as Target, Apple, Amazon, etc. A team manager used to collect the gift cards and share them with the kingpins. He added that the kingpins then used the gift cards to redeem them.
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