India major centre for fraud |
India is emerging as a major centre for fraud although it has no such past reputation, an FBI agent serving as a legal attache at the US embassy in New Delhi told The New York Times after police in Thane last year unearthed a scam in which callers from bogus call centres in Mira Road area and Bhayandar duped US citizens by pretending to be calling from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). While 80 people who were present at the call centres were arrested when they were raided, the police said the scam was just the `tip of the iceberg.`Suhel Daud, the FBI agent, told the newspaper that the presence of a large call-centre culture and increasing number of English-speaking youngsters looking for jobs are some of the trends that lead to such a scam.
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