Mumbai Crime Branch on Friday busted a racket in suburban Kurla that duped people in the US on the pretext of providing banned medicines to them. The racket involving eight people are suspected to have cheated thousands of people in the United States, a police official said.

According to the officials, the accused are suspected to have made calls through Voice over Internet Protocol and also sent messages to US nationals. These accused called the people in the US, posing as representatives of a pharmaceutical firm, offered to sell banned drugs including Viagra to them but didn't supply the medicines.