Fraudulent call centre busted in Kasba

A group of men has been arrested for allegedly running a fraudulent call centre at a residential apartment in Kasba, police said.

According to the police, the group used to target people staying abroad by posing as service providers of a software company.

“The fraudsters would call their potential victims posing as officials of a software company and fraudulently gain remote access to their devices on the pretext of giving them technology support,” said an officer of the anti-fraud section of the detective department of Kolkata Police.