Dehradun: At least 13 youths of a cyber fraud gang were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) and Kotwali Patel Nagar Police for allegedly cheating foreign citizens by running an illegal call centre in Uttarakhand's Dehradun, police officials said.
The accused used to target foreign citizens by claiming to be representatives of Microsoft and Apple. The accused were operating this fake call centre at Chaman Vihar, Saharanpur Road, they said.
After this, STF was formed, and the police team raided the building located on Saharanpur Road. During the raid, the police found the accused on the spot. On questioning them, it was told that they, along with their other associates, were operating a call centre in Doon for a long time, police officials added.
Senior Superintendent of Police, STF Navneet Bhullar, said they received a tip-off about the fake call centre racket. The confidential intelligence input suggested some youths were running a fake call center here, he added.
"They were involved in extortion of foreign citizens living in USA and Canada. They mislead them and scare them by sending intimidatory pop-up messages. The messages will claim that the accused have got proof against the victims that they had watched porn videos or that their bank account had been used to indulge in some kind of fraud. This is how they had been defrauding them," the senior police official explained.
उत्तराखंड STF ने देहरादून में अवैध रूप से संचालित एक अंतर्राष्ट्रीय साइबर फ्रॉड कॉल सेंटर का भंडाफोड़ किया, जहाँ माइक्रोसॉफ्ट और एप्पल के प्रतिनिधि बनकर USA और कनाडा के नागरिकों को ठगा जा रहा था। छापेमारी में13 अभियुक्त गिरफ्तार कर लैपटॉप, राउटर समेत कई तकनीकी उपकरण बरामद किए गए pic.twitter.com/7bAB0PJY0r
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The top cop further said that a case was registered against the 13 accused by the Cyber Crime Police Station, and that they had issued notice under section 35 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) has been given to all of them.
The police team has recovered a total of 13 laptops, two WiFi routers, three switches, one media converter, one extension, 10 laptop chargers, five mice, 10 headphones, four mobile phones, and other equipment from the spot.
The accused were found to have foreign numbers in missed and dialed calls, and details related to money transactions through different applications have been found on some laptops, police added.
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