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Cyber Police busts fake call centres, 23 persons arrested

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/14/2021 12:21:43 PM

Srinagar, Jan 13 Cyber Police Kashmir busted fake call centres and arrested 23 persons who allegedly duped people by impersonating as executives of e-commerce companies. Cyber Police Station Kashmir Zone, Srinagar received information through reliable sources that some fake call centres are running in Kashmir Valley and accordingly the investigation into the instant matter was taken up by them. During the course of investigation, it revealed that some individuals are impersonating as executives of multi-national companies under garb of bogus international call centres and are duping innocent citizens by offering them technical support and solutions to their software problems. These fake call centre executives are making cold calls, and send e-mails, pop-ups on computer screens of the victims and used to take remote access of their computers and infect their systems with malware, thus starting extorting money from them in return for help by impersonating as technical support. They also make use of electronic signatures of the victims for their illegal financial gains. These fake call centres would mostly call international citizens and demand their financial and bank details illegally so as to extort money from them to cause illegal gains for themselves and subsequent losses to victims.