Busted: Indian Call Center Ring Duped Foreigners into Paying ‘Loan Tax’ in BitcoinA bitcoin fraud scheme has been unearthed in the Mumbai surburb of Mira Road. The scheme involved duping foreigners into parting with their money by informing them that they were behind in tax payments, according to the Hindustan Times.
Based on the personal financial information they had obtained from their victims including loan arrears and take-home salaries, perpetrators of the scheme would call their victims and demand that the ‘loan tax’ that was owed be paid through bitcoin.
According to Atul Kulkarni, the Assistant Superintendent of Police at the Thane Crime Branch, the fraudulent scheme was being carried out from a call center in the Mumbai suburb. Seven people aged between 22 and 42 were arrested after police raided the place following a tip-off. Equipment that was being used to commit the crimes including computers were also seized by the police. Investigators have yet to determine the amount of money the fraudsters had managed to obtain from their scheme.
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