Mumbai Police arrested four people for allegedly running a fake call center that was indulged in duping people, the police said. According to the police, The officials from NM Joshi Marg police station were investigating a case of online fraud where the complainant, an accountant by profession, was allegedly cheated of about Rs 97000. 

The police said, In January 2022, a 48-year-old accountant working in the security firm received a call from an unknown number. The woman at the other end of the call told him that she is talking from a government bank's credit card department. She told him that he was being offered a 'security feature' for his credit card. The woman took the details and last 4-digits of his credit card which he shared. Later, he received two One Time Passwords (OTPs) that were asked by the caller to be shared with her, as he shared the OTPs there were two transactions from his bank account and a total of Rs 96,876 were deducted from his account,