Haryana Chief Minister’s flying squad busted an illegal call centre operating out of Gurugram on Saturday. They had allegedly duped over 35,000 US citizens of millions of dollars. The CM flying squad captured 24 men and women working as employees in the centre being run at JMD Megapolis mall.
It was reported that the victims had received an email or a pop-up message saying that their personal information was not safe as their computer was attacked by a virus, shortly after which their screen froze. Unsuspecting victims would then contact this call centre called Green Rock Entreprise, which had been posing as a technical support centre for those who had been receiving these messages. A fake antivirus software would then be sold to them, following which they would hack their systems.
DSP Inderjeet Yadav, who had masterminded this raid, said, “The accused first collected data of the callers such as names, mobile numbers, e-mails and addresses and then sent them voice mails through an eyebeam dialer. They trapped foreigners to clear pop-ups and provide antivirus in the name of technical help. They had remote access software for pop-ups and using the name of antivirus software, namely Mcafee, Bit Defender, Trenmicro and Kasper Sky. They asked the US nationals to purchase i-Tune gifts cards and in turn, got a hold of their phone number. With this trick, they duped more than Rs 1 crore from over 600 foreigners.”
The employes denied having any knowledge of this illegal operation, claiming that they had been duped. The kingpin of this operation, Vikram Verma, is now being interrogated by the Haryana Police.