NEW DELHI, Sept 2: A call centre employee was arrested in eastern India for allegedly using the credit cards details of US customers to make online purchases, a newspaper said on Saturday.

Sulagna Ray, 23, was accused of obtaining the credit card information while selling US customers a television service as part of her job, the Times of India reported.

Ms Ray, an aspiring fashion designer, allegedly spent 4,000 dollars using other people’s credit cards to buy an airconditioner, microwave, cosmetics, saris, jewellery and chocolate, the report said.

The theft was discovered when a California-based firm, Syssoft Corp, complained of fraudulent purchases made through its e-commerce website, the deputy police commissioner in Kolkata, Gyanwant Singh, told the daily.

Ray worked for Jaishree Infotech, an Indian company handling work for another US e-commerce website.

The police traced the woman through the Indian website from which she had purchased the products. It provided the goods’ delivery address.

Ms Ray appeared in court on Friday.

In June, police in Bangalore arrested an employee of global banking giant HSBC for allegedly taking 230,000 pounds from 16 bank accounts held by Britons.

In recent years, many foreign companies have switched call centre work to India to save costs but there has been growing concern about potential fraud.—AFP