4 SCAMMER SPEAKS OUT
Call centre boss bragged it’s easy to con old people out of their money
Call centre conman boasts: ‘It is easy to trick the old and disabled’ AN Indian call centre is at the centre of a nationwide storm after staff were filmed laughing and joking at victims of scams. The call centre - which was raided by police after the programme - featured in a BBC expose showing scammers at work in the centre. It was recorded by an activist who hacked into the company's security cameras. Staff were seen laughing at their victims in the US and the UK. But who are these scammers, and how do they justify their actions? Piyush told BBC reporters how he made a quarter of a million dollars. "It was easy money," he says, detailing
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how he bought fancy cars and wore designer clothes. From a modest background, Piyush made a fortune by defrauding innocent victims at the other end of a phone. "To become a rock star we have to do something," he says. "Become a thief?" asked the journalist. "Right," he replies coolly. Piyush met the BBC journalist in a friend's apartment, in one of Delhi's richest neighbourhoods. The group of young men I've come to talk to all have one thing in common - they've worked in India's scam call-centre industry. contnued on page 5
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