new delhi the fake call centre fraud in pitampura may be just the tip of an iceberg sources in the crime branch say the fraud may run into several million pounds have hawala links and involve more than two lakh uk nationals if sleuths are to be believed there are more than 100 such call centres operating in delhi and the ncr and two lakh calls are being made daily to target foreigners a senior officer said interrogation of the five accused by inspector bhagwati prasad and si praveen duggal revealed that they lost their jobs during the 2008 recession but had learned the tricks of the trade by then they took advantage of the fact that overseas customers paid for services without unnecessary hassles the accused have full knowledge about loans mortgages and insurance operations in the uk and the us mastermind anshuman srivastava has been running this racket since january 2011 and has confessed to a fraud of rs 90 lakh in one year but a contact in qatar cheated him of about rs 35 lakh and he also lost heavily in cricket bets he told police srivastava revealed he had several contacts in uk survey agencies which supplied data at rs 150 per person the data contained names addresses contact numbers loan amount loan year bank account information and other details of uk citizens who had taken loan and paid it off successfully srivastava roped in four others who could speak fluent english and were smooth talkers they were paid around rs 15000 apart from commission for every fraud they pulled off a house was taken on rent and equipped with computers laptops and internet connections the customers made payment by ukash vouchers the accused conveyed the voucher number to their contact using yahoo messenger the contact then converted the amount of ukash vouchers into lr liberty reserve an online account after deducting commission then the accused received the money transferred to him through hawala channels a case under sections of criminal conspiracy section 120b ipc forgery and cheating 420 ipc and section 66 of information technology act has been registered more arrests are likely dcp sbs tyagi said