Last Updated on 26/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
CBI busted a call center involved in cheating foreigners.
Cyber crimes, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBICBI has busted a big network of cyber fraud with the help of foreign agencies like Interpol and FIA. The investigating agency has arrested 43 people from a call center in Gurugram. These people were duping foreign people and swindling millions of dollars from them. Officials said that CBI is in touch with foreign investigating agencies for further action and the amount of fraud is also being traced.
CBI officials said 43 suspected cyber criminals were arrested in Gurugram after busting a call centre that allegedly duped foreigners by offering technical solutions to their computer problems. They said the CBI raided the office of Innocent Technology (OPC) Pvt Ltd located in DLF Cyber City in Gurugram, where the central agency found several agents making live calls with the intention of duping foreigners.
CBI raids on seven locations simultaneously
CBI said, searches were conducted at seven places in Delhi, Gurugram and Noida. During these searches, so far 130 computer hard disks, 65 mobile phones, 5 laptops, incriminating documents, financial transaction details, call recordings, details of victims and copies used to target victims have been recovered. Officials said that it was revealed that different centers were working in coordination in this network to carry out cyber-based international financial crimes and in this regard, they mainly got instructions from the call center operated from DLF Cyber City in Gurugram. So far 43 accused have been arrested. CBI is in touch with FBI and law enforcement agencies of many countries through Interpol to get clues in this regard and take further action.
The cheated money was sent to Hong Kong
The bureau has alleged that the targets were persuaded to download malicious software on their systems, which would cause their computers to shut down. “The victims were then asked to pay to fix their systems,” the central agency said. It has been found that the proceeds of crime were laundered from several countries to Hong Kong.