London, March 20: Revealing a case of data theft by a call centre employee
in India, a UK-based media group has unearthed a racket allegedly involved
in selling credit card details of British customers in New Delhi.

 During a sting operation, BBC reporters posing as fraudsters from London
bought UK names, addresses and valid credit card details from one Saurabh
Sachar, based in New Delhi. The investigation was broadcast in BBC's news
bulletin yesterday.

The team went to India on a tip off after being put in touch with a man
offering to sell stolen credit and debit card details. Two undercover
reporters met the broker in a Delhi coffee shop for an encounter that was
filmed secretly.

He said he could supply them with hundreds of credit and debit card details
each week at a cost of 10 dollars a card. After the reporters agreed to
initially buy the details of 50 cards, the man handed over a list of 14.

Sachar said the remainder would be sent later by e-mail. He claimed some of
the numbers had been obtained from call centres handling mobile phone sales
or phone bill payments.

After the team returned to the UK, Sachar continued to supply card details
to one of the reporters through email.

Nearly all of the names, addresses and post codes sold to the reporters were
valid. But most of the numbers were invalid -- often out by a single digit,
the BBC said.

Bureau Report

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http://www.zeenews.com/business/companies-commodities/2009-03-21/5164...

No  need to add that  in  India  there is - no LAW of  DATA protection .
That is as far as outsourcing goes...-;)

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