On September 27, 2024, over 350 officials with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India conducted raids on at least 35 illegal call centers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat based on a tip received by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The call centers are believed to have deceived American residents with fraudulent loan and credit offers, only to later extort money from them in the process.
The FBI has arrested 10 individuals involved in the scam, prompting the CBI to launch a nationwide probe and initially arrest 140 individuals from a scam call center in Thane, Maharashtra. The server for their scam was traced back to Ahmedabad.
At least 30 individuals were detained for questioning and various devices were seized during the operation.
The call centers are believed to have operated under the watch of local law enforcement, and a police inspector was believed to have invited call center experts to set up operations at the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar border.
I hate to be cynical, but I’ve been actively baiting for 9 years and I’ve seen these raids time and time again. They are usually nothing more than a dog and pony show, a “look, were doing something!” While the scammers and the bosses face extremely little or no consequences whatsoever.
When or if they are sentenced to jail time or held accountable in any significant way, I’ll sit up and take notice.
It is kind of the only way you get to look at this, and who is anyone not to look at the awful corruption and dysfunctions put in societies for tax paying voting consumers. We all hope to get to sit up and take some notice of some of these hardcore criminals getting put behind bars, it also would be nice if a lot of them had worked in fraud DC. Boy would people sit up applaud that.
We here in US will get our chance to see something for better in Nov. as this had become a long-drawn-out nightmare for the consumers and I think all consumers here in US and on the globe are hoping for that.
