Hyderabad
A YouTuber from the US has discovered a scam call center right here in Hyderabad. The call center is said to be functioning from a building in the city’s IT Hub, according to the YouTuber who is from the United States.
The YouTuber who runs a channel called Scammer Payback alleges that a scamming company is running from the fifth floor of a building near the 100 feet road in Madhapur was duping thousands of people from the US and Australia.
The YouTuber Pierogi posted a 19-minute video on his YouTube channel that he frightened the scammers into paying back money to several persons who were conned by the company. The video has garnered around four million views now.
Pierogi has also shared their names, addresses, and CCTV footage from the premises where the scammers were operating from. Details of people who were scammed, the exact office address and IP addresses, and the names of a few working in the company are shared in the video.
The YouTuber says the company has been cheating people in the name of memberships and sponsorships. He says he even interacted with a victim to understand their modus operandi. The questioned woman lost $1500. Pierogi says he hacked into the scammer’s computer system network. He says he has deleted as many as 50,000 addresses and data of people from the US and Australia.
Pierogi says he has written to the Telangana Police about the scam call center. When contacted, the Cyberabad police said they did not find anything suspicious in the building so far.