Interpol, FBI, and Canada Police Come Together to Tackle Illegal Call Centres in Noida That Dupe Foreign Nationals

New Delhi, October 18: Officers from Interpol, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held a meeting with Gautam Budh Nagar senior superintendent of police (SSP) over the increasing number of crime related to call centres frauds on foreign nationals. The meeting was held at SSP Ajay Sharma's office during which all officials discussed the rising complaints against the call centres that dupe foreign citizen especially Americans and Canadians, a report by Hindustan Times informed.

"In the last six months, we have raided five illegal call centres and currently working on one more such case. In all cases, the action was taken after the tipoff. However, he said that we were not having any direct contact with the victims as they were mostly foreigners. In the meeting, they have decided to work together and track down the victims to help police make their case stronger," Sharma said. US Call Center Scam: 21 Indian-origin Persons Sentenced Up to 20 years.

This comes after the fake call centres are duping people in the name of loans, shares and online products. It must be noted that the fake call representatives act as an employee of the multinational company and ask people to deposit money or make the payment for the product or service. The number of this scam centres are on a rise in metro cities- Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. The number of cases is rising because the people targeted are foreign nationals so the most cases go unreported. 15 People Indicted in Massive Call Centre Scam in US.

Earlier this year, Maharashtra police had busted a call centre scam, in which the mastermind was a person named Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy. Reports inform that Shaggy defrauded American taxpayers of USD 300 million. This scam was operated since 2013 and targeted at least 15,000 Americans. Police have arrested the directors of the firm. But till that time, Sagar the kingpin of the fraud fled from the country, before the police could catch him.

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