Current Events > Indian police arrest alleged ringleader of IRS scam

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/09/news/tax-scam-india-arrest-ringleader/index.html

Sagar Thakkar, 24, was detained in Mumbai after arriving on a flight from Dubai on Saturday.

"He was the mastermind of IRS scam call centers in the setate of Maharashtra and one center in Ahmedabad," said Mukund Hatote, assistant commissioner of police in Thane, just north of Mumbai.

Hatote said Thakkar stands accused of extortion, cheating, impersonation, criminal conspiracy as well as violating India's communications and tech laws.

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Thakkar -- also known as "Shaggy" -- was one of 61 defendants mentioned in a U.S. indictment unsealed last October. The bogus call center workers were accused of stealing from 15,000 people by using the IRS scam and other fraud schemes.

The article says they arrested over 390 people in connection with this. Sheesh. I've gotten a few calls from them, but my Android phone started giving warnings of when calls are reportedly from IRS scammers or telemarketers, so I never answered the phone to talk to them.
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My co-worker's mother fell for that. Bought $5k worth of gift cards. She called him up crying afterwards while he was at work, the whole ordeal was sad to watch.

People that prey on the elderly are sick.
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fuckers, glad they are gonna be in jail

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

My co-worker's mother fell for that. Bought $5k worth of gift cards. She called him up crying afterwards while he was at work, the whole ordeal was sad to watch.

People that prey on the elderly are sick.

But why would she give money to a stranger over the phone?
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they've called me

asswipes

I feel bad for the people who fall for this. But come on. The IRS wants you to give them gift cards?
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

My co-worker's mother fell for that. Bought $5k worth of gift cards. She called him up crying afterwards while he was at work, the whole ordeal was sad to watch.

People that prey on the elderly are sick.

They tried it on my mom with both the IRS and Windows.

The IRS one she just hung up but she doesnt know anything about computers so she gave me the phone and i told them that we have an apple computer and they hung up.

We dont but i wanted to see what they would say
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LightningAce11 posted...

But why would she give money to a stranger over the phone?

Old, dumb, scared.
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