Hyderabad, March 20 -- The city police here busted an international call racket that was being operated through through the Internet. Illegal incoming international VoIP calls were pumped into India from foreign countries using VoIP technology, said the police.

The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway converts VoIP calls, which were in the data form, into voice form and also retrieves the number dialed by the caller at the other end in a foreign country and dials that destination's number using one of the available telephones connected to the VoIP gateway.

The CLI (Calling Line Identification) on the receiver's phone displays one of these telephone phone numbers whereas the caller (or call) is from outside India.

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