Article 1X74S Indian call center employees posing as the IRS may have bilked Americans out of millions

Indian call center employees posing as the IRS may have bilked Americans out of millions

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Mark Frauenfelder
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I get a couple of calls a week from scammers pretending to be from the IRS. I also get calls from scammers telling me that my Windows computer (I don't use Windows) has a virus. I might not get as many of these calls, at least for a while, because a major call center in India was raided on Tuesday, and 770 people were rounded up.

From Washington Post:

More than 200 police officers descended on a tall, glass-fronted office building where the nine call centers were operating during Tuesday's midnight raid after being tipped off by neighbors.

"It looked like a regular office building and employed a lot of young people who spoke English and had a good knowledge of computers," Singh said. "It was a very sophisticated operation they were running."

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