On June 21, 2026, police in Delhi, India raided an illegal call center operating out of a residential district in Sector 5, Dwarka for facilitating common technical support scams against United States citizens, where
- The scammers will generate fake virus popups, urging the victims to call a designated toll-free “suppoat” number.
- When called, the scammers will gain remote access to their victims’ computer and run the “netstat” and “dir/s” commands to artificially inflate the severity of the nonexistent threat.
- The scammers will later demand “processing fees” from about $500 to $3,000 by having their victims either purchase gift cards from a nearby store or to deposit the funds into a Bitcoin ATM.
14 bhenchods were arrested:
- Jaspreet “Jassi” Singh, the kingpin from Delhi
- Pawan Gupta, a 32-year-old manager
- Ved Prakash Gaur, a 30-year-old manager
- Kushagr Bishnoi, a 26-year-old manager
- Satya Prakash Shukla, a 27-year-old tele-caller
- Kshitiz Malik, a 29-year-old tele-caller
- Raman Kumar Kalshan, a 30-year-old tele-caller
- Dilip Kumar, a 31-year-old tele-caller
- Mukesh/Sam, a 26-year-old tele-caller
- Aniket/Alex, a 26-year-old tele-caller
- Shubham Shivam, a 28-year-old tele-caller
- Upender, a 26-year-old tele-caller
- Ankit Sonkar, a 31-year-old tele-caller
- Saurabh Dixit, a 27-year-old tele-caller
- Himanshu, a 27-year-old tele-caller
Police have also seized 13 laptops with accessories, 25 cell phones, databases of American victims and other incriminating digital evidence.
https://the420.in/delhi-police-fake-call-centre-busted-us-citizens-cheated-tech-support/