SAS Nagar, June 23 - The team of Range Anti-Narcotics cum Special Operation Cell (Range Rupnagar Camp, Sector 79) Mohali has arrested 10 persons from two centres who were running fake call centres and duping gullible people.
Giving details, DSP of Special Operation Cell Rupinder Deep Kaur Sohi said that these persons were arrested during the campaign launched against anti-social elements on the directions of DIG Mr. Harcharan Singh Bhullar. They were running fake call centres and duping gullible foreigners by logging in on laptops and computers.
She said that the police, led by Inspector Darbara Singh, in-charge of the team of Range Anti-Narcotics cum Special Operation Cell, raided Manchanda Tower (Plot No. D-133 C, Phase-7, Mohali), where fake call centres were running on the first and third floors. The owner of the call centre on the first floor, Manmeet Singh Banwait, resident of Sector 53, Mohali, and staff members (Anmol Malhotra, resident of Shivjot Kharar, Mohali; Jasneet Kaur, resident of Kharar; Narmita, resident of Sector 117, Mohali; Gurpreet Singh, Phase-1, Mohali; Woogsam Hangejio, resident of Dimapur Sadar, Nagaland, presently staying at PG Balongi) were arrested with 5 laptops, headphones, 9 mobile phones and luxury vehicles used for office work (including a Fortuner, a Jazz, and a Verna).
He said that these persons were running a fake call centre and sending emails regarding bitcoin purchase and Amazon purchase to foreigners through email blasting through PayPal. When foreigners called on the given toll-free numbers (which ran on Eklite app on their laptops), they were told that their PayPal account was hacked or being used for illegal activities, and online bitcoin purchases were being made at various places. 
Then the caller, saying that their call was being transferred to the bank, would pass on the call to a colleague sitting in the same office, who would ask for an Apple gift card for refund, withdraw money from it, and transfer it to himself through USDT and hawala and cash it in India, in this way foreigners were duped.
He further told that by setting up a fake call center on the third floor of this building, foreigners were duped by logging on to the computer. The manager, Moriya Nath alias Christopher, resident of Dwarka, Delhi (presently residing in Aero City, Mohali), and his assistant staff Ishu Kumar, resident of Himachal Pradesh (presently residing in Swaraj Enclave, Sante Majra, Kharar), Rinchen Vinayil, resident of Bhutan (presently residing in JBP Crest, Kharar), and Dolly Kumari, resident of Jharkhand (presently residing in Sarila Apartment, Siwalik City, Kharar) were arrested. 4 CPUs, 4 headphones, and 5 mobile phones of the manager were recovered from them.
He said that these persons used to run a fake call center in the name of a travel company and advertise through a website and offer tickets to foreigners at cheap rates. Then they used to call foreigners and obtain their credit and debit card details and charge them on illegally registered payment gateways through various vendors in the name of ticket booking. 
The transaction was approved by the customer through email, and the payment gateway people would deduct their commission and pay the money to the accused in their accounts or in cash in India. Innocent foreign people were cheated by not giving them tickets.