patna patna police on tuesday arrested three members of two separate gangs involved in duping americans and nonresident indians nris in the us in the name of either penalty for rectifying some errors in their data filled by them at airports or providing technical support to save their personal computers from virus attacks they posed themselves as immigration officers they also speak fluent english with american accenti had received a message on whatsapp almost a fortnight back from an nri of east champaran he was duped of us600 in the name of penalty for rectifying the format of data entered by him at an airport in the us the nri lives in texas patna ssp manu maharaaj said ashish gupta the kingpin of a gang was arrested from his call centre in nri plaza at rajeev nagar under pataliputra colony police station area on his tipoff police arrested vikrant kumar a ba honours student of mathematics and ravindra kumar gupta an electronics engineer from another call centre at exhibition road their boss abhijeet kumar could not be arrested more than 30 personal computers and laptops were seized from the two call centresthe ssp said the frauds used a usbased website which hosts details of those who had gone through immigration procedures at airports ashish told the police that they posed as us immigration officers and used voice over internet protocol voip technology to call their victims and tell them that they had wrongly filled the departure card at the immigration counterswe used to tell the person in the us to pay us600 as penalty to rectify the errors we used our agent dee rivers account in california to route the duped money to india through western union after giving him commission we also pay 35 commission to the agent in kolkata said ashish a commerce graduate and a native of kahalgaon in bhagalpur his father virendra prasad gupta runs a cellphone repair shop there police sources said ashish has amassed huge immovable and movable property in and outside biharusing certain websites we used to get remote access to the victims computers and tampered with their system then we called and charged them 199 in the name of providing service for two years and 99 for one year said ashish who was running the racket in the name of all voice tech and communication private limitedashish told the police he had been running the gang for the last three years and employed at least 15 youths on rs10000 to rs15000 salary for making calls to the targets in the us a technical firm in gurugram runs the same kind of fraud and i had worked there for one year before starting my own gang in patna ashish addedvikrant said they followed the standard procedure of international call centres and rang victims using pseudo names with american english accent his father owns a garment shop at lalganj in vaishali district ravindra is a btech from punjab technical university