On November 25, 2024, police in South Goa, India conducted a raid against an illegal call center operating from a private villa in Zuarinagar near Vasco town for facilitating a myriad of scams to dupe American residents into paying large sums of money in the form of gift cards, bitcoin and other means. The scammers have impersonated:
- Amazon
- Apple
- Zelle
- PayPal
- Various government agencies
- Their victims’ banks.
Police have also arrested 24 individuals, hailing from
- New Delhi
- Haryana
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Maharashtra
- Gujarat
- Punjab.