India, July 30 -- The Mumbai unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recently busted a cybercrime racket in which fraudsters extracted money from unsuspecting US citizens by claiming that their accounts with two major e-commerce and consumer electronics platforms had been compromised and used for illegal activities.

The entire operation was carried out from an illegal call centre in Pune, with a team of trained callers, CBI officials said. The fraudsters allegedly impersonated customer care executives of the two US firms and informed them that their accounts and social security numbers had been compromised and needed remedial action.

Once they had the attention of their potential victims, the fraudsters would allegedly attempt...