Gurugram based call center cheated 40,000 in 12 countries arrested

There is growing fraud happening across the country since many years in the name of data security and crime crime support and recently a call center based out of Udyog Vihar ,Gurgaon had duped millions of dollars and pounds, on the pretext of providing remote technical support to at least 40,000 in 12 countries, where two are arrested.

Amit Chauhan, A 30-year-old resident of The Magnolias in DLF 5 and owner of a Gurugram scam call centre was arrested along with Sumit Kumar of Jind. Kumar was an accountant in Chauhan’s office and was involved in managing the funds earned fraudulently involved in running a fake call centre in Udyog Vihar . He had cheated 40,000 people in the UK, US and other countries, was arrested with an associate on Tuesday. He's a dropout from a Kurukshetra engineering college.

The cybercrime police team carried out a raid at his office building after preliminary investigation. When the police team reached the call centre they witnessed executives making calls posing as technical experts from Microsoft. When police asked them to show the documents and licences for running the call centre, Chauhan tried to mislead the police, but later confessed to the crime,” he said.

Police said they have recovered enough evidence to establish his involvement in the scam and how the call centre run by him duped victims. “The script used by the telecallers was allegedly found in his laptop.

Police further said, the data recovered has details of thousands of users, including their email IDs, credit and debit card numbers. “We are verifying all the details. We have assigned the task of sending emails to all victims to Vivek Kundu, station house officer, Cyber Crime police station.

A case under sections 420 (cheating), 120 B (conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code and Sections 75, 43 and 66D of IT Act was registered at Cyber Crime police station on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the suspects were taken on a day’s police remand after being produced before the court.

The details of Chauhan’s company’s bank account to get the exact transaction amounts received. We will also write to the embassies concerned regarding this fraud taking place and will apprise them of the issue faced by the people seeking online technical support.

The police on Wednesday contacted Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Limited, as their name has also been used by the suspects for duping victims.