Lucknow gets ’email blasting’ for the first time
Busting a gang that ran a fake call centre racket, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested nine persons from Indira Nagar in Lucknow.
The arrested men have been identified as Muteen Khan, Khalid Raza, Deepak Jaiswal, Baktiyar Ali, Shoaib, Mudassir Alam, and Zishan Khan, all natives of West Bengal.
The police also arrested Arpit Maurya of Ayodhya and Vishal Meena of Lucknow.
The gang was involved in ‘email blasting’.
Email blasting is sending emails to many recipients at once. The emails were sent to people abroad asking them to call the gang back on a ‘toll-free number’.
The calls received were then diverted to a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) application to fool callers in the name of renewing their subscriptions for online IT services.
This is the first case of email blasting in Lucknow.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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Good development. Hope to see more of it in all of Bharat