Maha police bust fake call centre cheating people in Canada; 23 arrested

Police have busted a fake call centre operating in Maharashtra’s Palghar district and allegedly cheating people in Canada and threatening them to make payments for online purchases, officials said on Sunday.

Twenty three people have so far been arrested in this connection, they said.

Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the call centre, operating from six flats at a housing complex in Nane village of Wada taluka to evade coming under the scanner of security agencies, on the intervening night of Friday-Saturday, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Balasaheb Patil said.