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IRS scam: 22 Gmail ids under scanner
The accounts were used by 17 wanted accused in the case as well as a few of the arrested accused.
Mumbai: Thane police officials probing the call centre scam have technical evidence of 22 Google accounts and 27 email ids of Bigrocks.com, which was used by many accused in the case to share details of the database of US nationals or some company related issues. They have contacted Google and Bigrocks.com over the same.
The accounts were used by 17 wanted accused in the case as well as a few of the arrested accused. The accused were allegedly posing as officers of USA’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to extort US citizens.
In its chargesheet filed four days ago, the Thane police spoke about the receipt of cash transactions using Western Union Money Transfer, Wells Fargo bank transaction receipts and MoneyGram. The police has sent emails to these money transfer companies to get details of the transaction of these receipts.
With respect to the 22 Google email ids, the Thane police requested for their details from the chief technical officer of Google Inc, in the form of seven questions. The chief technical officer in his reply said that they would soon share details through MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty).
In its 5,786-page chargesheet, the police attached a database of 8,000 US nationals with the names and numbers of those were extorted by these call centres accused. The police also said that there are more victims.
The police had sent an email to Big rocks.com seeking information about the 27 mail boxes of domain of I Serve BPO .com. Big rocks.com in its reply gave the police details about seven mail boxes in which they have received secret email exchanges between accused Vijay Sidhapura, Minaj Nadsaf, Chetna Kori and wanted accused Mohhamad Marjuraki. The mails exchanged some secret information as well as database of US citizens.
There are 17 wanted accused in the case, whose names are as follows: Sagar Thakkar, Reema Thakkar, Mohhamadali Marjuraki, Tapesh Gupta, Dinesh Vaishya, Jimmy Patani, Amit Singh, Pushpesh and Dhuven (police don’t know full name), Brijesh Patel, Ashishbhai Chatbar, Ashish Chaudhary, Jugal Saini, Krupal Thakkar, Rasesh, Rachit Joshi and Clemence Henry.
