On February 23, 2025, police in Mumbai, India raided an illegal call center that operated out of the third floor of the Arpan apartment at Amarkant Jha Marg, Vajira Naka, Borivali West for facilitating your standard Microsoft technical support scam, complete with fake virus pop-ups. The scammers that were arrested include:
- Dipen Whanwani, the only one without a previous criminal record.
- Akkshat Surana
- Abhishek Gupta
- Tilak Joshi
Police have also seized 6 laptops, 20 phones, 2 routers and 6 sets of headphones.