New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested six persons for allegedly cheating people, mostly residing in the US and Europe, on the pretext of providing them online technical assistance, police said Tuesday.

The accused, identified as Mohit Bansal, Udit, Yashwant Singh, Guraman Singh, Rohit Chauhan and Pfokreni Kayio, ran an illegal telephone exchange and used a foreign Internet Protocol (IP) address to lure their victims, they added. Cash worth Rs 7.40 lakh, information technology equipment including several servers, routers, SIM box, hard disks, SIM cards used by them have been seized from them, the police said. On March 7, police received a tip-off regarding the racket being operated from Anupam Building in Pitampura.'