New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- The Gurugram police recently busted a fake call centre racket in Sector 30. This racket basically targeted people across the nation with fraudulent credit card offers, reported Times of India. The gang posed as banking officials and reached out to individuals, offering to redeem credit card reward points. They even offered credit card holders special upgrades.In reality, all of these offers were methods to gain trust and trick victims into downloading a fake application through a phone link. Furthermore, once the application was installed, it harvested sensitive information such as CVVs, OTPs, along other confidential information.

This enabled the criminals to siphon funds from the victims' credit card accounts. The...