The Pimpri Chinchwad police have busted two fake call centres, operating from a plush commercial complex of Gera ‘s Imperium in Hinjewadi Phase 2 IT Park, for cheating several American citizens. Police have booked 23 persons, of whom four have been arrested so far.

Police said the call centre employees were allegedly well trained in having telephonic conversations with American citizens using pseudonyms. They were provided scripts in English to target American citizens by faking American accents, police said.

Acting on a tip-off by police commissioner Vinoy Kumar Choubey, two teams led by inspector Ravikiran Nale of cyber crime police station and inspector Arvind Pawar of crime branch, were formed to raid the two call centres in Hinjewadi on Friday morning.

A press release stated that i

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