On March 26, 2025, police in Kolkata, West Bengal, India carried out multiple raids against illegal call centers that operated out of Sector V in Salt Lake, Lake Town and Narendrapur, arresting 27 individuals and seizing $111,983 in defrauded money, computer hardware and other crucial evidence and estimating the group stole $23,796,396 in Bitcoin payments within the past year. The call centers raided were:
1, Tech Suppoat Scam
Operated out of the Imagine Tech Park at Block DP, Plot, 6, Salt Lake Bypass, DP Block, Sector V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700091, India.
Facilitated technical support scams that required payments in gold or Bitcoin.
Three individuals arrested:
Javinash Jaiswal, the owner from Chinar Park
Sk Saju from Entally
Devinder Singh from Behala
$79,322.08 seized, $10,965.11 from Jaiswal
2, Windows Tech Suppoat
Operated out of the 11th floor of a condo in Chowhati near Narendrapur.
Facilitated Microsoft technical support scams.
Three individuals arrested:
Joy Halder
Shafiquat Shafique from Beniapukur
Third individual not identified.
$30,333 seized, police identified $23,797,395.60 in crypto transactions over the past year.
3, Ostenix Solutions
Impersonated employees of Australian national broadcast networks to falsely claim the victims needed to pay to upgrade their copper wires to optical fiber.
Used the virtual phone software Eye Beam with French and Finnish IP addresses.
21 individuals arrested, including four women and the kingpin Samir Khan (who provided Australian leads), and four were taken into custody.
29 computers, two laptops, 23 mobile phones and other equipment were seized.
When I look at the people arrested in past posts they never show their faces. Is the intent to protect them in India? Let the world see their faces instead of the typical release them later to continue the crimes.
Yes, exactly. Not only that, but the main bigwigs often live in the UAE, Kuwait and Oman⌠They tend to never get persecuted and live in lavish comfort. Even mid-level scumbags simply bribe courts and police in India and walk away. The problem IS India itself, as well as Pakistan, the Philippines, Nigeria and few others. They have no motivation or incentive to fight the cyber criminals. Nothing will happen, until our government and its mostly useless NATO âalliesâ start putting the pressure on these degenerates.
I couldnât possibly agree with you more.
India is a corrupt country where, for the price of a nice meal, it will allow you to walk away, scott-free and continue to scam innocent people. Bribery is just part of doing âbusinessâ in India.
Not to mention the legal system doesnât have loopholes, it has giant crevasses. For example (as Jim Browning and many others can tell you) they need numerous victims testimony to even proceed with charges. This is a bar too high and unrealistic as victims are overseas and most are too embarrassed to make statements.
Not to mention that in India, no money made âoutside of the countryâ is taxable. This not only means that scammers are rewarded for their despicable acts by having all of their proceeds deemed to be tax-free; it also does absolutely nothing to benefit the people of India as this money all goes right in their pockets.
Very good and valid points! To make it more entertaining, in Pakistan, there is a lovely extra âbonusâ to your mainstream foreign fraudulent operations. Many of their scammers and cyber criminals are affiliated with the extremists and various terrorist Islamic groups and networks. A few of them also operate pedophile rings in the UK and the EU. Isnât it lovely how Pakistan is still considered our âallyâ officially?
I have a brilliant idea! Why wonât both VLADs: Vlad Vendrow and Vlad Shmunis move to Pakistan to be close to their core âclienteleâ? Seems like a fun and cute place to be in! Vendrow can finally live his life as a real Baron Vladimir Harkonnen of Dune there (I think I am seeing some similarities in facial appearance and such) and Shmunis can just hang out and have fun and great conversations with some terrorist pedos
Speaking of India and their traditions and customs, donât the numbers in this article speak for themselves? Here is my favorite part from it: â92,356,000 WhatsApp accounts associated with Indian phone numbers were banned for abusing the service during 2024. This represents an average of almost 7.7 million bans each month, or a quarter of a million bans every day, although the rate for banning accounts accelerated considerably towards the end of the year.â
