5 Arrested For Cheating Foreigners, Posed As Tech Support Firm Staff: Police

Police conducted a raid on Thursday and arrested the accused targeting foreign citizens, mainly from the US.

Five people, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly running an illegal call centre and duping citizens of foreign countries by posing as representatives of a tech support company, police said on Friday. The owner -- Pritpal Singh (35) along with his associates Mayank (26), Chandan Gupta (24), Subham Kumar (22), and Kinkini Das (35) were operating the call centre from the third floor of a building in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar, they said. Based on a tip off, the police conducted a raid on Thursday and arrested the accused targeting foreign citizens, mainly from the US, on the pretext of giving them tech support, stating that their system was vulnerable to cyber attacks, police said. Among the employees, Subham and Chandan were junior callers while Mayank was a senior caller, police said, adding they were working here for the last seven months and called up customers using a high-end technical software "X-lite/ Eye Beam" through cloud servers.