The Indian Embassy in the Us Issued an Advisory on Fraud Calls on Tuesday. The advisory noted that fraudsters are spoofing embassy of India telephone lines to make calls aimed at cheating people.
“Some of these calls are shown as being from the embassy telephone numbers (202-939-7000) while others simply use embassy identity. These fraudsters either seek personal information like credit card details etc. Or try to extort money from Indian nationals by inter alia claiming that there are errors in their passports, visa forms, immigration forms etc. Which could be retired by paying money, and at the same time warning that so called errors, if not retired, clock result in departation of the individual to India or their improisonment in use. In some cases, these fraudsters have also falsely claimed that they receive private privileged information from the Embassy or other authorities in India. Visa Applicants have also received such such such as purporting to be from the embassy, ”The Advisory Read.
