India uncovered Telecom fraud groups: tens of millions of dollars of fraud-Telecom fraud-IT information

India Mumbai police said 5th arrested more than 700 people in raids the previous night, they were arrested for posing as United States tax telephone scam, the amount of money involved could be as high as tens of millions of dollars.

4th Mumbai police received a tip late, out of about 200 police officers raided 7 disguised call center office space. Regional Police spokesman sukada·nakaer said: "a total of 772 people was arrested, and arrested 70 of them have a criminal record, someone with no criminal record was released, but the investigation against them is underway. ”

Police said the suspect called United States citizens, disguised as United States internal revenue service personnel, claiming that other tax arrears, trick them into providing bank account information, after which suspects would take away money from other accounts.

Nacar said, the suspects engaged in such fraud has been more than 1 year, the daily average recorded about 10 million rupees (about 1 million Chinese Yuan).

India has a large number of relatively cheap, educated, English-speaking workforce. Since the beginning of this century, many users call center for foreign companies to set up here.

印度破获电信诈骗团伙：诈骗数千万美元 - 电信诈骗 - IT资讯

印度孟买警方5日说，在前晚的搜查行动中共逮捕700多人，他们涉嫌伪装成美国税务人员进行电话诈骗，涉案金额可能高达数千万美元。

孟买警方4日晚接到线报，出动约200名警员搜查了7个被伪装成呼叫中心的办公场所。地区警察局发言人苏卡达·纳卡尔说：“共772人被捕，其中70人有被捕前科，无前科的人被释放，但针对他们的调查正在进行中。”

警方说，嫌疑人致电美国公民，伪装成美国国内税收署工作人员，声称对方拖欠税款，诱使其提供银行账号信息，之后嫌疑人便会从对方账号上取走钱款。

纳卡尔说，嫌疑人从事此类诈骗活动已超过1年，日均入账约1000万卢比(约合100万人民币)。

印度拥有大量相对廉价、受过教育、能讲英语的劳动力。本世纪初以来，许多外国公司将用户呼叫中心设立于此。