The Commissioner’s Task Force (North) team on Saturday nabbed four persons after busting a call termination racket. Two laptops, three CPU’s with accessories, three port switches and five mobile phones were seized.
The arrested persons – M. Krishna Chaitanya (29), Gaddam Raj Sai Rahul Kumar (28), Pitlam Ramakanth (27), P. Siddharta (24) and Pittala Anurup (25) along with one Anudeep, who is absconding, used Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology to route calls to landline and cell phones from any part of the world to India and vice-versa which is illegal, DCP (Task Force) B Limba Reddy said.
Huge revenue loss
The use of such methods caused a huge revenue loss to the government and also posed a security threat, the police said. The arrested persons were handed over to Cyber Crime Station for further investigation.
