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title: "Callers For Dollars: Inside India’s Scam Call Centers"
metaTitle: "Inside India Scam Centers"
slug: inside-india-scam-centers
date: "2016-12-01T15:21:11-06:00"
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/undefined.webp"
sourcePublisher:
  name: Reuters
  url: reut.rs
sourceArticle:
  url: "http://reut.rs/2rJy2eP"
legacySlug: callers-for-dollars-inside-indias-scam-call-centers
tags: [Consumer Fraud, IRS, Phone Scam]
status: published
---

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December 1, 2016

In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over “tax evasion or tax fraud”.

Panicking, she rang the number and told a man who said he was from the IRS: “I can pay $500,” half the sum demanded. “I could do a payment plan. I just can’t pay all of it at once...”