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To teach a lesson to four men after they were found roaming outside unnecessarily during the lockdown, a few <keyword id="6358992" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Police">Delhi Police</keyword> personnel played a prank with them by asking them to carry a "fake dead body" of a COVID-19 patient, officials said on Sunday.A policeman, who was wearing a <keyword id="2493103" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="personal-protective-equipment">personal protective equipment</keyword> (PPE) kit, pretended to be dead. The matter came to light after a video of the act surfaced online on Sunday. The video was shot in east Delhi's Mandawali area. However, senior officers did not appreciate the act and warned the officials against repeating it, they said. After scolding the four men for roaming around unnecessarily, the policemen told them that since they have violated the lockdown norms, they will be punished. As a punishment, the policemen were seen purportedly asking the four men in the video to carry the "fake body" on their shoulders and take it to the cremation ground. After hearing this, the men tired to escape but were caught by police, who then dragged them towards the "fake body". Seeing the body, the men pleaded to policemen. However, the four were made to pick up the "fake body". They carried the "fake body" for some distance but were later stopped by the police who warned them against violating the lockdown norms. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/lockdown-4-0-india-issues-new-guidelines-allowing-states-to-decide-the-red-green-and-orange-zones/articleshow/75790707.cms">Lockdown 4.0 ⁠— India issues new guidelines allowing states to decide the red, green, and orange zones</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/petrol-and-diesel-get-more-expensive-in-odishapetrol-and-diesel-get-more-expensive-in-odisha/articleshow/75784329.cms">Petrol and diesel get more expensive in Odisha as government hikes value-added tax</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/uber-ride-in-gurgaon-of-driver-seat-in-plastic-goes-viral-on-tiktok-and-instagram/articleshow/75771489.cms">Video of an Uber ride is all the rage on TikTok and Instagram ⁠— the driver got himself a cockpit covered in plastic</a>

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<ul><li>A group of YouTubers dedicated to stopping scam calls has taken on scammers in India.</li><li>The group identified a scam call centre in Kolkata and pranked them.</li><li>The group’s efforts also resulted in the closure of a scam call centre and arrests of those involved.</li></ul>Scam callers are a known menace who prey on the elderly and non-tech-savvy people to steal money from them. It is a known fact that several scam callers <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/india/how-an-army-of-online-criminals-has-turned-india-into-a-call-centre-fraud-haven-10121201.html">operate</a> from India to steal money from people in western countries. Here’s where Mark Rober comes in. Rober is a former NASA engineer and YouTuber who posts videos about the stuff builds on his channel. He is popularly known for his over-engineered packages that he builds to prank people who steal packages from outside houses. After coming across Mrs Bessie, an elderly person who was scammed by a person for $20,000, Rober took it upon himself to get to the bottom of this. While some of the people responsible were arrested in the United States, he found out that those arrested were only low-level mules and the actual scammers were based in India. <div type="Youtube" id="xsLJZyih3Ac" title="Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xsLJZyih3Ac/mqdefault.jpg"></div> <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="A single scam call centre earns around $18 million per year" comment="subhead" text="A single scam call centre earns around $18 million per year">A single scam call centre earns around $18 million per year</cmsannotation> <div type="image" title="Screenshot (127)" msid="91463380" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Document accessed by the group.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Rober and his team were able to access the documents of a scam call centre’s owner. This revealed that the centre earns over $60,000 per day, which is over $18 million considering that the centre works six days a week. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Team behind the prank" comment="subhead" text="Team behind the prank">Team behind the prank</cmsannotation> As part of the plan, Rober teamed up with Jim Browning, who has a dedicated channel to take on tech support scams. Trilogy Media, a duo dedicated to busting scammers, were also part of the plan. Once the team was ready, Ashton Bingham and Art Kulik, the duo behind Trilogy Media landed in Kolkata, the city where the alleged scam callers were based. They worked with some of their associates in the city to infiltrate some of the call centres. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Here’s how the prank began" comment="subhead" text="Here’s how the prank began">Here’s how the prank began</cmsannotation> Jim Browning was able to locate four of the alleged scam call centres in Kolkata – Ansh Info Solutions, VRM Business Services and MET Technologies. The fourth centre has not been named. The group then hired 10 private investigators to apply for jobs at these centres to collect information about them. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Contraptions built by the group" comment="subhead" text="Contraptions built by the group">Contraptions built by the group</cmsannotation> <div type="image" title="1" msid="91463409" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The stink bomb bottle.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The first contraption built by the group was a bottle that had a chamber in which the group placed a military-grade putrescent that induces nausea. Then, they built a custom box that was used to store and release cockroaches at these centres. <div type="image" title="2" msid="91463439" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The custom-built box that releases cockroaches.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The group also built a box that released rats and a micro fogger that released smoke in the room. Finally, the team built a glitter bomb that also releases fart spray and is equipped with four cameras. <div type="image" title="Glitter bomb" msid="91463457" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The Glitter bomb that releases fine glitter and fart spray.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="The setback" comment="subhead" text="The setback">The setback</cmsannotation> Members of Trilogy Media were spotted by some scammers in Kolkata and information about this was shared in a Telegram group that contains over 55,000 scammers from the country. The message further asked members to keep an eye for the duo and shoot them if they are found. <div type="image" title="TG" msid="91463504" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The telegram group and the messages about Trilogy Media.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> This prompted the duo to stay in their hotels while other members continued with the plan. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="The prank begins" comment="subhead" text="The prank begins">The prank begins</cmsannotation> The contraptions built by the group were smuggled into the call centre by a former scammer. Thanks to Browning, the team already had access to the security feeds at the call centre. The scam began with the team setting off the stink bomb bottle in the office and placing a hand soap with dye was in the bathroom. <div type="image" title="C" msid="91463514" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The cockroaches released by the box.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Before the scammers could figure out where the stink was coming from, the box with dozens of cockroaches was released, resulting in a frenzy. While the cockroaches were being removed, the fogger started smoking and the rat box was triggered. The glitter bomb was removed from the office and opened in what looked like the office’s parking space. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="The result" comment="subhead" text="The result">The result</cmsannotation> Once the devices were set off in the scam call centre, the Telegram group received another message that alerted other scammers. This resulted in several scam call centres across Kolkata and Delhi being shut off for several days. Rober revealed that the unnamed fourth scam call centre was raided by the authorities in India and was shut down. Unfortunately, the other three call centres remain open. Rober ends the video with a request to viewers to share the video with the Kolkata Police on Twitter. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/hackers-using-seo-to-plant-malicious-pdf-on-search-engines/articleshow/91459859.cms">Cybersecurity researchers uncover a new trick that lets hackers plant malicious PDFs on search engines using SEO</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/10-things-in-tech-insta-crypto-scams/articleshow/91179344.cms">10 Things in Tech: Insta crypto scams</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/news/new-york-couple-part-of-a-plot-to-trick-a-man-into-embezzling-4m-to-save-woman-from-make-believe-mob-enforcer/articleshow/91033439.cms">New York couple part of a plot to trick a man into embezzling $4m to 'save' woman from make-believe mob enforcer</a>

Here's how a group of YouTubers pranked a scam call centre in India that makes $18 million per year

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What is more offensive and derogatory – a name that is spoken with some affection though sometimes with ignorance wrapped around, or the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Shiv+Sena">Shiv Sena</a> asking Biharis, workers from UP and Gujarati businessmen to leave their ‘amchi Mumbai’? Or people in J&amp;K, the NE, and a few other regions calling you ‘Indian’ when you go to these places as tourists? Or the Government in the Centre giving step-motherly treatment to governments in the States and UTs that are under the rule of some other political party? Or the <keyword id="6356116" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="LG">LG</keyword> of <keyword id="66" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi">Delhi</keyword> saying he is the government in Delhi? Or contest losers on twitter calling me ‘buddha’ and asking me to leave some contest winnings for them? Or words like ‘bong’, ‘punju’, ‘gujju’, ‘madrasi’, ‘sambhar’, ‘<keyword id="1626067" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chinky">chinky</keyword>’, ‘<keyword id="2959948" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Thulla">thulla</keyword>’, ‘<keyword id="1256925" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="tambi">tambi</keyword>’, and ‘sulla’ directed towards people from one community or the other? 
 Let me first tell you about an incident that I remember from my days in the <keyword id="120637" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Military-Academy">Indian Military Academy</keyword> where we had a sikh friend who was in our course but a couple of years elder and had streaks of grey hair. To top it all he was fond of staying away from pranks and troubles and was forever talking about ethics and remaining on the good side of the law. At some stage someone must have called him ‘buds’ which is like calling a 20-something a grandpa. No, I never called him buds but I did wonder then, as I do now, if there was anything offensive in the word. Most of us loved him and so buds as a form of address reflected affection. But this sikh Gentleman Cadet, despite all his wise outpourings was invariably peeved and did not appreciate his being called buds. I haven’t met him after we left the IMA and so I hope he either got acclimatised to this pet name, if I may call it that… or people just stopped calling him buds in his regiment. 
 
If you think this kind of renaming happens only in India, look beyond our borders and hear ‘paki’, ‘negro’, ‘nigger’, or declared slurs like ‘bin laden’, ‘jehadi, and ‘cabbie’ for Arabs, or ‘jew’ during the nazi heydays, or ‘nazi’ now, or ‘bindi’, ‘desi’, and ‘patel’ for Indians, or ‘dubya’ and ‘jarhead’ for Americans, ‘bubba’, ‘pus’, and ‘gora’ for the whites, ‘nacho’ and ‘taco’ for the Spanish… so from ‘Alibaba’ to ‘zipperhead’ our world is full of interesting innuendoes that need not necessarily spend their lives being calibrated as offensive words. 
 
These are the words that have made life just so much more interesting and injected with laughter… banning them or shunning them is like Modi taking offense to his 56 inch chest quote getting pulled apart and minced to prove some point or the other. 
 The other day <keyword id="260213" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword> referred to the Delhi policeman as a ‘thulla’ and everyone from Bassi to the media howled with displeasure. Come on, we’ve all had umpteen names for Kejriwal and ‘aaptards’ for his party is probably more known than even ‘thulla’. I decided to know more about the word ‘thulla’ and the first interesting derivation was offered by the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/brfdictionary/glossary/t/thulla">BRFDictionary</a> on the net that said: “The term is used to denote a stereotypical slow moving police constable with a big gut. The origin of this term has to do with the word for a sack made of jute fiber, which is "thula" in some languages in the Eastern part of India. As it happens, police constables in many states in India are issued a brown starched uniform that looks like it was made from a sack. Hence the word for "jute sack" was morphed into slang for "police".” By the way, our policemen aren’t just ‘thullas’ but are also ‘mamas’ and ‘pandus’… and our <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> movies make sure that we don’t ever forget these dear words. The online dictionary for Hindi words was predictably less brave and avoided any reference to this word which is ridiculous because the word is as much a part of the language as any other and deserves a place in history… I mean, do we just let lovely and much used (sometimes abused) words fade away and disappear? 
 
I don’t think it is great idea to go guns blazing at all these forms of address that we classify as slur words… let them live their lives, accept them, and soon enough you’ll know that like ‘Uncle Tom’, ‘spook’, and ‘shine’ every word becomes a part of the glorious history of civilization. 
 
The story of Chinky, Thulla, and Tambi is as interesting as is the story behind any other word in any other language and thus needs to be kept alive.

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