Police said on Wednesday police said six men had been arrested for allegedly defrauding the customers of a US-based IT company by posing as its tech support specialists. surname.
Police said on Wednesday police said six men had been arrested for allegedly defrauding the customers of a US-based IT company by posing as tech support professionals. their.
They have been identified as Abhishek Chhabra (31 years old), Rahul Gupta (24 years old), Pushkar Raj (23 years old), Aditya Dhankar (23 years old), Arpit Chaudhary (23 years old) and Ashish Vaswani (25 years old).
Police said they received information on Monday that a fake call center operating in the Paschim Vihar area was committing fraud. WE citizens on the pretext of providing technical assistance.
After technical analysis, a raid was conducted and the accused running the fake call center was found making unsuspecting calls Everyone overseas, a senior police officer said.
Lead defendant Chhabra has been running the call center since last month, police said.
Police said the defendant sent pop-ups on the computers of victims who did not suspect that their systems had been compromised and that they should call tech support.
When the victim called that number, it went to the fake call center. The defendant then pretended to be part of the company’s technical support team and lured victims into remote access to their computers. They would then falsely tell the victim that some malicious program was found in their system, police officials said.
They will even warn the victims that Bank credentials may have been compromised and immediate remedial steps are needed. The victims would then agree to pay whatever amount the defendant asked to settle the matter, they said.
When recieved paydefendant pretends to clean malware, virus etc from the victim’s system, police said.
They have tricked people based in the US over Police officials said there was one more incident like this last month.
