India, Sept. 17 -- The police arrested 13 people on Tuesday after busting a fake call centre in Goregaon East for duping American citizens by luring them into buying fake gift cards to purchase antivirus software for their computers. The accused would send their victims emails along with toll-free numbers urging them to renew their device's antivirus software and then proceed to defraud them.

Crime branch officers said that on Monday an anonymous source sent them information about an allegedly fake call centre operating in the Vihan Commercial Complex in Walbhat Road near the Jawahar Phatak at Goregaon. The police then raided flats 704 and 705 of the complex and found the 13 accused, including three main orchestrators of the fraud and 10...