The 70 people arrested were among more than 700 detained when police raided makeshift call centers - a bungalow, an office building and a shopping center in the Mumbai suburb of Thane - late on Tuesday. Assistant police commissioner Bharat Shelke told Reuters the alleged scammers posed as U.S. Internal Revenue Service officials and left victims voicemails accusing them of tax evasion and threatening them with arrest. Authorities say callers were trained to switch their Indian accent for a passable American one.
Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center.