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title: "New York men busted in $2.3M call center scam: feds"
metaTitle: "NY Men Busted in 2.3m Call Center Scam Feds"
slug: new-york-men-busted-in-2-3m-call-center-scam-feds
date: "2019-08-26T13:31:09-05:00"
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/undefined.webp"
sourcePublisher:
  name: New York Post
  url: bit.ly
sourceArticle:
  url: "http://bit.ly/2mh9P1h"
tags: [Call Center Fraud, Call Center Security, IRS]
status: published
---

August 26, 2019

Three men were busted Monday in New York for running an Indian call-center con that fleeced more than $2 million from US victims — including a 76-year-old woman who lost her savings, prosecutors said.

Long Island brothers Kamal Zafar, 51, and Jamal Zafar, 48, and Queens man Armughanul Asar, 68, were hauled before a federal judge in Central Islip, where they pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money-laundering conspiracy.

Prosecutors say the trio worked with “co-conspirators” at a call center in India, where scammers would badger Americans on their home phones by posing as employees of the IRS, the DEA or the Social Security Administration.