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1 More Arrested In Thane Call Centre Scam
One more person has been arrested here in connection with the multi-million dollar transnational scam originating from India-based call centres which cheated thousands of American citizens into paying off fictitious debts, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 75, city police said today.
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Call Centre Scam Mastermind Bought Rs 2.5 Crore Audi From Virat Kohli: Police
A luxury car one was seized from Ahmedabad belonging to Sagar Thakkar alias 'Shaggy', main accused of multi-million call-centre scam, which he allegedly purchased from cricketer Virat Kohli, police said.
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Call Centre Scam: Mastermind Fled To Gulf During Police Raid
When the teams of Crime Branch of Thane Police were busy in raids in the call centre scam, its mastermind Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy was fleeing the country in the early hours of October 5, officials said.
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Call Centre Scam: Transactions Worth Rs 30 Crore Identified
Investigators on Thursday told a local court they have identified transactions worth Rs 25-30 crore in the call centre scam here till now and that it will take a long time for them to arrive at the actual figure given the magnitude of the scandal.
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Call Centre Raids: Police Suspect Involvement Of Gujarat Cop's Son
Investigation into the call centre racket in Thane wherein US-based tax payers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers posing as tax officers has led Thane Police to suspect involvement of the son of a senior IPS officer from Gujarat.
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Mira Road Call Centre Scam: Kingpin Shaggy Gifted Rs 2.5 Cr Car To Lover On Birthday
A lavish lifestyle and everything posh of the kingpin of the multi-crore extortion racket being run from call centres in Mumbai and Ahmedabad was not restricted to him - Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy (23) had gifted a Rs 2.5 crore Audi R8 to his 21-year-old girlfriend on her birthday, the Thane police have said.
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Mira Road Call Centre Con: Insider Spills The Beans
Just one month into his well-paying job, Rakesh (name changed) decided to quit. The reason, he says, was that he found out that he was really being used to cheat aged American citizens and extort money from them by pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Four More Call Centres Raided In Thane, One Arrested
Four more call centres in Thane's Mira Road were raided and one person arrested, days after police swooped on three other call centres for allegedly conning American nationals by posing as US taxmen, police said today.
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Mira Road Call Centre Con Began In August, Callers Got Double Pay, Incentives
The Thane police, which busted an international racket being run from a Mira Road call centre that placed calls to US citizens posing as IRS officials, said several of those arrested are college dropouts or unemployed youths, who stayed in the job for the handsome salary.
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Kingpin Of Mira Road Call Centre Scam Is An Indian-Origin American
1.2 million Americans called up, and 6,400 cheated, of a total of Rs 3.6 crore - the largest scam in the history of US' Internal Revenue Services (IRS), as disclosed by Thane Crime Branch. The racket was being run from a call centre in Mira Road, and the mastermind is an Indian-American, pulling the strings from the US. A manhunt has been launched ...
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1 More Arrested In Thane Call Centre Scam
One more person has been arrested here in connection with the multi-million dollar transnational scam originating from India-based call centres which cheated thousands of American citizens into paying off fictitious debts, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 75, city police said today.
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Call Centre Scam Mastermind Bought Rs 2.5 Crore Audi From Virat Kohli: Police
A luxury car one was seized from Ahmedabad belonging to Sagar Thakkar alias 'Shaggy', main accused of multi-million call-centre scam, which he allegedly purchased from cricketer Virat Kohli, police said.
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Call Centre Scam: Mastermind Fled To Gulf During Police Raid
When the teams of Crime Branch of Thane Police were busy in raids in the call centre scam, its mastermind Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy was fleeing the country in the early hours of October 5, officials said.
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Call Centre Scam: Transactions Worth Rs 30 Crore Identified
Investigators on Thursday told a local court they have identified transactions worth Rs 25-30 crore in the call centre scam here till now and that it will take a long time for them to arrive at the actual figure given the magnitude of the scandal.
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Call Centre Raids: Police Suspect Involvement Of Gujarat Cop's Son
Investigation into the call centre racket in Thane wherein US-based tax payers were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers posing as tax officers has led Thane Police to suspect involvement of the son of a senior IPS officer from Gujarat.
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Mira Road Call Centre Scam: Kingpin Shaggy Gifted Rs 2.5 Cr Car To Lover On Birthday
A lavish lifestyle and everything posh of the kingpin of the multi-crore extortion racket being run from call centres in Mumbai and Ahmedabad was not restricted to him - Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy (23) had gifted a Rs 2.5 crore Audi R8 to his 21-year-old girlfriend on her birthday, the Thane police have said.
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Mira Road Call Centre Con: Insider Spills The Beans
Just one month into his well-paying job, Rakesh (name changed) decided to quit. The reason, he says, was that he found out that he was really being used to cheat aged American citizens and extort money from them by pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Four More Call Centres Raided In Thane, One Arrested
Four more call centres in Thane's Mira Road were raided and one person arrested, days after police swooped on three other call centres for allegedly conning American nationals by posing as US taxmen, police said today.
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Mira Road Call Centre Con Began In August, Callers Got Double Pay, Incentives
The Thane police, which busted an international racket being run from a Mira Road call centre that placed calls to US citizens posing as IRS officials, said several of those arrested are college dropouts or unemployed youths, who stayed in the job for the handsome salary.
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Kingpin Of Mira Road Call Centre Scam Is An Indian-Origin American
1.2 million Americans called up, and 6,400 cheated, of a total of Rs 3.6 crore - the largest scam in the history of US' Internal Revenue Services (IRS), as disclosed by Thane Crime Branch. The racket was being run from a call centre in Mira Road, and the mastermind is an Indian-American, pulling the strings from the US. A manhunt has been launched ...
