INDIAN police have shutdown a Mumbai-based call centre that had been targeting US nationals claiming to be an online pharmacy.
Mumbai police officers swooped on the bogus call centre on Mon following a tip-off, which resulted in the arrest of two men believed to have been the ringleaders of the international scam.
"They would target US citizens through VoIP calls by claiming to be an online pharmacy," a police spokesperson told broadcaster, NDTV.
"They would offer to sell Viagra, Cilais and Levitra, generally medicines for sexual problems like erectile dysfunction, at cheap rates.
"Once the sale was made and the payment obtained online, the accused would stop contact with the buyer."
Prosecutors have lodged a case against the two men for cheating and impersonation under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act.
Meanwhile as the US marked Martin Luther King Jr Day on Mon, anti-vaccination campaigners attempted to hop on the civil rights bandwagon to suggest requiring children to be inoculated against preventable diseases to access free education was comparable to injustices faced by African Americans, in posts on Twitter.
We're not convinced King would have dreamed that his children could get the mumps!
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