Washington sources have stated that the Indian Embassy in Washington has informed the US government about it and launched its own internal investigation. Meanwhile it also issued a rare public advisory on such fraud calls that has cheated people with money.
Meanwhile the Indian Embassy said in his advisory that “These fraudsters either seek personal information like credit card details etc. or try to extort money from Indian nationals by inter alia claiming that there are errors in their passports, visa forms, immigration forms etc. which could be rectified by paying money, and at the same time warning that the so called errors, if not rectified, could result in deportation of the individual to India or their imprisonment in USA”.
Moreover according
to informed US government officials, in the past they have received similar
complaints from other diplomatic missions as well, in particular those from the
European nations. Further the Americans have been frequent victims of such
phone calls from call centres in India on behalf of the US Internal Revenue
Service. In several joint operations in the last one year, Indian authorities
have arrested scores of people making such fraud calls.
