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Investigation reveals mutli-million dollar cyber-scams based in India

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Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada are being scammed by fake call centres in India, which are making millions of dollars. The call centres operate across India - but the authorities are unable to stay on top of the problem, despite some recent raids and arrests. Now the BBC's Panorama program has obtained the recordings of 70,000 calls from one of the criminal call centres that target Britain. That story by the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan for SBS News, produced by பிரபா Maheswaran for SBS Tamil.


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Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada are being scammed by fake call centres in India, which are making millions of dollars. The call centres operate across India - but the authorities are unable to stay on top of the problem, despite some recent raids and arrests. Now the BBC's Panorama program has obtained the recordings of 70,000 calls from one of the criminal call centres that target Britain. That story by the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan for SBS News, produced by பிரபா Maheswaran for SBS Tamil.



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