The bland tower blocks of Sector V district in Kolkata are not on the itinerary of visitors to India, yet the people behind the walls of these buildings are all too familiar to many in the West.
To their victims, they are just voices on the other end of the phone, purporting to be from the tax office, your bank or internet provider or simply trying to deliver a package, and they have only one sinister intent – to get your personal details and bleed you dry.
These voices on the phone do have faces and names, and their offices are real and organised, and now the Daily Mail can expose them.
In the last month alone local police have shut down five call centres in Sector V – ironically known as the City of Joy – each with hundreds of staff.
These employees are mixed in with the thousands of legitimate business people who commute to Sector V each and every day.
They wear business attire, carry their briefcases and arrive at unassuming buildings where they sit behind their desks and begin a nine-hour shift cold calling a list of victims from around the world.
In the last month alone local police have shut down five call centres, each with hundreds of staff. Pictured: a raid on a scam call centre in India
Scam crusader Jim Browning suggests some 50 per cent of the world’s scam calls can be traced back to these few blocks in West Bengal’s capital.
‘Within that small area there might be upwards of a hundred different…
