Mumbai Crime Branch on Sunday busted a racket in suburban Andheri that duped people in the US on the pretext of providing banned medicines to them. The racket involving nine people were arrested for cheating thousands of people in the United States, a police official said.

According to the police, the accused used Skype to talk to the US nationals. They posed as representatives of a pharmaceutical firm and offered to sell banned drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra to them. Once the potential customers showed any interest in buying the medicines, the accused asked them to pay through online or buy some gift cards. They assured them of supplying those medicines but didn't.