Call-center provided sex-talks “support”

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05 Nov 2012

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A call-center in India was shuttered by government officials after investigators found that the place was used as hotline for sex talks, Indian media reported.

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Police said the general manager and three other employees were arrested last week and investigators were probing involvement of a big Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company.
Sanjay Gupta, a private security guard, was one of the victims of the call centre. He says he received a SMS from the call centre and lost all his money.
“I received an SMS some days ago which said a girl wanted to be my friend. When I called on that number, a girl seduced me and we used to talk every day for hours. I transferred a lot of money in the bank account number provided by her because she promised to get intimate with me. A few days ago I realized that she is cheating me and so I filed a police complaint,” he said.
The police, during its investigation found that many college going girls used to work at the call centre and would seduce people.
The girls were paid $ 0.36 per hour for talking to customers; if they talk to customers for 200 hours, they are paid nearly $ 110 as premium; but if a girl would talk to a customer for less than a minute, she would not be paid.
Customers used to be charged $ 0.55 for the first minute and then $ .03 from the second minute onwards.
Police says the business was done in accordance with the revenue share. The service provider company would get 60 per cent and the value added service provider would get the remaining 40 per cent.
“We have come to know that a lot of college girls used to work there and seduce people in return of good salaries. Everyone was given a target to complete. We have arrested few people of the company and are further investigating. This is an international racket and we are also investigating that if other call centers in the district are doing the same,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police, Cyber Cell, Triveni Singh.