News: Indian call centres selling YOUR credit card details and medical records
Data belonging to 500,000 Britons on offer to criminals and marketing firms Crooks offering information on customers of major High Street banks By Tom Gardner Big business: About 330,000 people are employed in India's call centres, in an industry worth around £3.2 billion a year. PUBLISHED: 09:19, 18 March 2012 | UPDATED: 08:00, 19 March 2012 ______________________________________________________ Confidential personal data on hundreds of thousands of Britons is being touted by corrupt Indian call centre workers, an undercover investigation has discovered. Credit card information, medical and financial records are being offered for sale to criminals and marketing firms for as little as 2p. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres, met undercover reporters from The Sunday Times and boasted of having 45 different sets of personal information on nearly 500,000 Britons. Data included names, addresses, and phone numbers of credit card