On July 16, 2026, police in Alwar, Rajasthan, India raided an illegal call center used to dupe victims across India, Canada and the United States through deliberate “digital arrest” scams, where
- The scammers will call their victims under the false personation of bank officers or government officials from agencies such as the United States Dept. of Justice.
- The victims, facing threats of arrests and frozen bank accounts, were asked to withdraw money from their accounts and hand them off to the scammers in various ways.
- The money would be converted into cryptocurrency and handed off to India.
Three bhenchods were arrested, including the 35-year-old kingpin Mohit Gupta, a former software and web developer for a private company who facilitated this scam network from his Bhiwadi apartment for the past two years. Gupta was arrested alongside coworkers Rahul Singh, a 34-year-old from Delhi, and James Anil Mandal, a 35-year-old from Kolkata, West Bengal.
Police have also seized a whopping $100,000 in Indian rupees, seven laptops, four cell phones and an SUV during the raid, though the three were also found to have destroyed evidence by deleting data from said laptops and cell phones. Additional arrests may be likely.