Young Nepali tele-abusers tell mid-day that they were lured into mobile lending scam with the promise of lucrative marketing jobs
Nepal police information officer, DIG Tek Prasad Rai, explains the intricacies of the scam to mid-day correspondent Faizan Khan at the police headquarters in Kathmandu
The now-busted call centres in Nepal that tortured Indian borrowers on instant loan apps hired unsuspecting locals under the pretext of marketing their products. Once on board, the Chinese nationals and their Indian associates running the show forced the employees to make abusive calls and send obscene pictures to the borrowers, ex-staffers told mid-day. Fluency in Hindi was the most important condition for the jobs.
This correspondent met a few former employees of the call centre at Tinkune in Kathmandu that was raided last week. All of them requested anonymity as they feared police action. The Nepal police, which acted following a series of reports by mid-day, have so far arrested 190 people, including 5 Chinese nationals and two Indians, after raiding three call centres—two in Kathmandu and one in Butwal of Rupandehi district.
Also read: Loan app scam: Inside Nepal call centre used to harass Indian borrowers
A call centre was busted at this spot in Tinkune, Kathmandu
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