{"id":1009347,"date":"2026-05-22T11:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009347"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:50:14","slug":"us-shuts-down-india-based-call-centre-accused-of-defrauding-elderly-americans-in-tech-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/us-shuts-down-india-based-call-centre-accused-of-defrauding-elderly-americans-in-tech-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"US shuts down India-based call centre accused of defrauding elderly Americans in tech scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have shut down an India-based call centre accused of defrauding hundreds of elderly Americans of millions of dollars through tech support scams, following a years-long investigation that led to the conviction of five alleged &#8220;telemarketing fraudsters&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In a social media post on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Boston said that the probe also resulted in the arrest and conviction of a former employee of the call routing company used by the fraudsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have shut down an India-based call centre accused of defrauding hundreds of elderly Americans of millions of dollars through tech support scams, following a years-long investigation that led to the conviction of five alleged &#8220;telemarketing fraudsters&#8221;. In a social media post on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Boston said that the probe also resulted in the arrest and conviction of a former employee of the call routing company used by the fraudsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009397,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009347\/revisions\/1009397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}