Exclusive: How online fraudsters trap their prey mid- day investigation u00bb With 200 calls a day, monthly target to scam people of at least R 70,000, and incentive bash in Goa, this fake call centre we infiltrated works just like a corporate firm, with the only difference being itu2019s fully criminal A week inside a phishing centre Shirish Vaktania outside Stage Door Communication Private Ltdu2019s Thane office on his first day at work Shirish Vaktania and Diwakar Sharma mailbag@ mid- day. com IT looks like any other corporate office, giving its employees strict shift timings and formal dress codes. But, behind the veneer of respectability and legitimacy lies a sinister plot to defraud gullible targets, especially farmers, of lakhs of rupees every day and make a turnover of at least a crore every month.

Phishing dens have secured their bases on the outskirts of Mumbai. For this investigation, a mid- day reporter busts a fake call centre by working as a staffer for a week. u00bb P06 Phishing racket in the garb of call centre u2014 SDCPLu2019s office in Thane.