Raid At Fake Call Centre In Noida, 12 Arrested

Police have seized 14 desktops and other related items…

On Friday, the Noida Police arrested 12 people from an unauthorised call centre for allegedly duping foreigners on the pretext of selling anti-virus software of famous companies.

In a raid, they seized 14 desktops and other related items at the call centre.

On Thursday, officials of Police Station Phase-1, acting based on manual intelligence and confidential information, arrested 12 people from the second-floor office of a building located in C block of Sector 2, a Senior police officer said.

"All these people call foreign natives and tell them that their company has antivirus software of McAfee and Norton which solves the problems faced by laptops and computers and is available at on offer price of USD 100 (Rs. 8,335) to USD 500 (Rs. 41,676) for a year," the official said.

"Then the callers send payment links to the foreigners over email and dupe them of their money.

Also, this call centre was being run by the accused without any license," the police spokesperson said.

All of them are identified as Pradeep Kumar Pradhan, Aviral Gautam, Rishabh Shukla, Ali Hasan, Anurag Tomar, Harendra Chaudhary, Mohammed Raju, Sandeep Kumar, Deepak Sharma, Saurabh Singh, Saket Priyadarshi, and Shivam Kumar, the police said.

Some of them are Delhi residents, while some stay in Ghaziabad, Noida and Greater Noida, the police added.

The police said they have filed an FIR under the Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating), 34 (party to criminal conspiracy) and under provisions of the Information Technology Act and further legal proceedings in the case are going on.