Abhinav Bector, Brampton, Associated with Call Center in India arrested for phone frauds

Los Angeles, Dec. 26, 2020
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested Abhinav Bector, Brampton man as part of Project OCTAVIA, which was launched in Oct. 2018 to combat telephone fraudsters that are targeting Canadians.

Abhinav Bector was charged with: 

• Fraud over $5,000
•  Possession of proceeds of crime
• Laundering of the proceeds of crime

Bector is scheduled to appear at the Brampton Courthouse on January 18, 2021. 

RCMP in a news release on Wednesday said:

• These telephone fraudsters, operating from overseas, have been targeting the Canadian public since 2014
• These fraudsters continue to modify their deceitful pitch and target Canadians even a number of police raids on illegal call centres in India, and arrests in Canada
• 10 people have been charged in connection with the investigation.
• Cumulatively between 2014 and 2020, the CRA scam alone has resulted in Canadians losing more than $18.5 million

As of Oct. 1, between the CRA scam, the bank investigator scam and tech support scam more than $34 million has been stolen from Canadians.

As of February, 2020 report, Police have since worked with Indian authorities to carry out a flurry of raids against suspected illegal call centres in the country. Canadian officials said they know of 39 call centres, in the New Delhi and Noida area, that have been shut down.