Dikhyaa Mohanty 
On Wednesday, the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police discovered a phony contact center that was operating out of an apartment in Bhubaneswar’s Sundarpada neighborhood. According to accounts, the police launched the operation in response to complaints from the community about suspected individuals residing in an apartment in the Sundarpada neighborhood within the city’s Airfield police borders and making use of technological devices.
“It is found Prima facie that the fraudsters were running a fake call centre here. they used to send malicious links to various persons in the country and outside at this call centre. They would later dupe the victims through these links,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Pinak Mishra.
Additionally, he informed the media that specialists will be examining electronics and other gadgets that were taken from the location during the operation. The accused parties’ remarks will also be documented for future research. According to sources, police have detained up to six residents of West Bengal, a neighboring state. They will be brought before the court on Thursday. Sameer Mobin, Md. Javed Hussain, Md. Tosif, Faizan Alam, Shaaib Raza, and Md. Haider Ali were named as the alleged scammers. All of the defendants are from Kolkata, West Bengal. Six laptops, eleven cell phones, and additional items such as Jio AirFiber, cables, Wi-Fi routers, outdoor devices, etc. are purportedly among the items that the police have taken.
“They send Email Bombarding in respect of McAfee & Norton Phishing mail to the victims (national and international clients) who have taken subscription of the antivirus, by impersonating themselves as from McAfee & Norton Customer care person. In the Phishing mail, they provide the toll-free number i.e.+18454784236. When the customer calls the toll-free number and when they receive the call and the call is redirected to Skype call and VoIP calls then they remotely access and take control of the system, then the client sends a gift card of the desired amount (Dollar) and they convert to Indian rupees like hawala transactions through different methods and cheated them,” added police sources.
