{"id":5132,"date":"2016-10-23T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T11:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:28:48","slug":"podcast-indian-police-make-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2016\/10\/podcast-indian-police-make-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Police Make Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mumbai, India – Around 70 Indian call center representatives were arrested last week in different raids in several buildings across the city. The suspects allegedly call Americans and demand them to pay the money they owed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and threaten to send the police to arrest them should they fail to pay up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the audio and read the transcript to find more about this telephone scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/learningenglish.voanews.com\/a\/india-us-scam\/3548899.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. How were these callers able to deceive people?
\n2. What are ways to identify whether this kind of phone call is a scam or not?
\n3. Talk about things you know about taxation in Spain.
\n4. What are other phone or internet scams do you know of?
\n5. Why is paying taxes important?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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