‘Easy money lured me’, confesses core member in call centre scam

Thane | Saturday | 14th July, 2018

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“Initially, they set up a call center at Mira road which had a sitting capacity of 20. Gupta told the police that he Thakkar and one other accused Avinash Master were school friends. The accused, who looked at the fake call centre is one of the managers and partner of the fake call centers. THANE: The 26-year-old management graduate who was part of the core team in the call centre scamming racket has confessed to the police that this annual income from the crime exceeded Rs 60 lakhs and the lure of easy money made him continue. “Shaggy gave him the capital to set up Mira Road BPO as Gupta refused to work in Ahmedabad,” he said.“Shaggy was the flashy types who would speak with an accent drive swank cars and had a team of bouncers surrounding him..