TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ The masterminds of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) call centre scam may be involved in at least four other such frauds to cheat US, Australian and Canadian citizens, a top police official said. The information is based on revelations by an arrested key accused, close to the multi-crore scam alleged kingpin Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy.
The arrested accused has revealed details of some more scams and their modus operandi in which they suspect thousands of US and some more foreign nationals have been cheated, he said. Beside cheating the US nationals by posing as US Tax Department officers, scamsters used to cheat people through the ‘medical pharma scam’,.
In this scam, they used to illegally procure data of subscribers who regularly use medicines like Xenix, Tans-toil, Oxide, Hydrophone, insisted that they purchase them and used to cheat them of thousands of dollars, he said. The Thane Crime branch team is working to get more details of this scam, the official added. In another racket, calls were made to people in the US for loan approval in which repayment was in instalments.
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