Bengaluru: Bengaluru police have busted a sophisticated call centre run from the tony suburb of HSR Layout that conned American and Canadian citizens through the digital arrest scam.
The scamsters impersonated law American and Canadian enforcement officials, accused victims of engaging in illegal activities and held them under round-the-clock video surveillance by using the term \"digital arrest\", which is non-existent in the law.
The arrested suspects are Madhev Singh (28) from Gujarat; Karthik Raju Vadyanam (25), Francis (29), Sunil (30), Aravind Anni Poojari (31), Inder Lalmanee Yadav (31), Rohan (28), Rishit Ramesh Salian (23), Guru Prasanna (32) from Maharashtra; Minot Kankai (32), Remison Bamon (30), Phani Leybha Nangzi (27), Eljiba Mary Marbaning (23), from Meghalaya; Rakesh Kuma