India, Nov. 21 -- In one of Navi Mumbai's largest cyber-fraud crackdowns recently, the Crime Branch and Cyber Police Station have busted a Turbhe call centre that allegedly ran two parallel scams- duping Indian citizens with fake stock-trading schemes during the day and cheating American citizens through bogus Microsoft tech-support alerts at night. Seventeen persons have been arrested, while the police say the scale of the operation is "far larger" than early estimates.

The raid was carried out on November 18 at Millennium Park, Building No. 3 in Sector 3, Turbhe, after a tip-off about a call centre operating under the guise of multiple shell companies. Inside, investigators found 97 men and women, mostly fresh graduates and college stu...