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title: "New data theft scandal rocks subcontinent’s call centres"
url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/09/03/new-data-theft-scandal-rocks-subcontinents-call-centres/
description: "Leading British and American companies face being dragged into an emerging fraud scandal at a call centre company in India. V-Angels, a Delhi-based outsourcing company."
published: 2006-09-03
updated: 2006-09-03
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# New data theft scandal rocks subcontinent’s call centres

Published 2006-09-03

September 3, 2006 · [Outsourcing](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/outsourcing/)

> Leading British and American companies face being dragged into an emerging fraud scandal at a call centre company in India.
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> V-Angels, a Delhi-based outsourcing company that handles customer inquiries for telecoms firms in the West, has reported a number of employees to the police for allegedly stealing highly confidential customer data.
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> Som Mandal, V-Angels’ lawyer, confirmed that the firm had made a police complaint. He declined to identify V-Angels’ clients, citing commercial confidentiality, but confirmed that they include ‘half a dozen blue chip companies in Britain and the US’.

[The Observer | Business | New data theft scandal rocks subcontinent’s call centres](http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1863593,00.html)

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