On August 29, 2024, officials with the Enforcement Directorate in India conducted a series of raids at 10 different residential and business premises used to operate illegal call centers for two different scam organizations based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, seizing $26,821.03 in Indian Rupees in the process. This includes MET Technologies Private Limited, which was listed on the Wall of Shame on May 8, 2022 after their call center was glitterbombed by @JimBrowning11, Mark Rober and Trilogy Media.
The owner of MET Technologies, Kunal Gupta, was arrested on August 26, 2023 and over $8 million in personal assets were seized as a result of the ongoing investigation. Gupta is also accused of working with Rakesh Choudhury, who served as the director of E-Unite Telecoms Private Limited and E-Unite Communications Private Limited, which were both raided raided back in 2022 for facilitating loan scams against American, British, German and Australian nationals.
