Indian scammer looting Britishers with thousands of pounds Busted

An India based international fraudsters involved in a multi-million money swindling scam busted by Haryana police from their Gurugram office in Sonit Tower.

A Haryana police team busted the scammer after big expose by BBC Panorama sting operation. The man has been identified as Amit Chauhan from Harayana. Chauhan was involved in international conning in major countries, including the UK making thousands of pounds per month.

According to information, team of Haryana police took spontaneous action after international organisation (BBC, UK) exposed the money scamming unit set-up in a call centre.  A criminal case has been registered in District Gurugram against Amit Chauhan and his partners and investigation is in progress.

Rajini Vaidyanathan, BBC South Asia Correspondent, called Amit Chauhan regarding the scamming allegations where he denied being involved into any such activity and disconnected the call shortly after.

BBC programme's sting investigators got the footage from Jim Browning who hacked the CCTV camera's of Chauhan's office, and he also collected more than 70 thousand call recordings revealing how the frauding system was being run.

Browning is a British Vigilante and hacked into these camera's in May 2019 and observed them for a while to understand what was going on.

"I found the whole thing incredible, and I think it is pretty unique to be able to see scammers in action. I really want the whole world to see what this looks like," added Browning.

These fraudsters make pornographic spyware with a message displayed on a users screen recommending to call Microsoft for immediate technical support to resolve the issue.

However, this message can be eliminated simply by restarting the device, but people who call the illustrated phone number get trapped into the scam and are charged hundreds of pounds to fix their computer devices. Paypal was a widely used method by users to transfer money to these scammers.

Notwithstanding, the scammer's account was not taken down by Paypal despite the information of the scam. On the BBC programme, spokesperson of Paypal refused to give any remarks on the incident but stated they are always committed for the security of their customers.

Amit Chauhan had trained his call-centre people where they pretend to be calling from banks, companies and sometimes even as the government employees.

As per statistics, people in the United Kingdom receives 21 million scam calls every month.

NOTE: Following the communication by Paralegal Oanh Nguyen of Lamber Worldwide LLC in regard to their client Amit Chauhan. It is said that their client Amit Chauhan was exonerated for the allegations made against him by the honourable court. As per documents provided by the above mentioned legal firm, The court of Azad Singh Judicial Magistrate (Gurugram) on 02/05/2022 acquitted Mr Amit Chauhan.