Today i received call from Indian Embassy number and after some verification he said to come to Indian embassy and meet with some Shrinivasan

I have received a similar fake call yesterday from indian embassy phone number. The natorious fraud wanted 854kd to be transferred to someone called Aruna Balraj, in India. He said that I could be black listed by Indian embassy as my immigration form in 2017 was incorrectly filled by me while I traveled to India in 2017. He knew when I first came to kuwait, and my travel details of 2017. When I listen to him carefully for more than half hour, I realized that he had a typical Pakistani English accent and he was asking me to go to the nearby Al muzaini exchange or western union money transfer in my area, and insisted that I don''t disconnect the call. When I asked him that first I wanted to go to the Indian embassy and later make the payment, he got annoyed and disconnected the call.
I sat down for a while, and thought about, how my passport and civil ID information was leaked to this fraud. It was the VFS Global office in kuwait city where I had gone for an interview to get visa from German embassy in kuwait. VFS Global a private agency from Mumbai has been given the contract and responsibility of processing the visa application for German embassy. That is where my details got leaked to this fraudster! I am sure because this was the place where they took both my passport and the Civil ID details, and these are the people who send the passport to the German embassy here and collect the passport from the German embassy. Later the passport is delivered to the candidate by VFS Global. When I called the Indian embassy in Kuwait they said that they have issued a press release about the issue and they have been facing this problem since 1 and half year.

I had received such a call last month. The call was from published official embassy number when I checked later. The caller had my travel particulars from 2017 , my email id, DOB etc. Very disturbing for me. But when he was demanding money, I was half convinced that this is a fraudulent call. I want to Thank embassy officials for the official warning clarifying the facts.

Why don''t Indian Embassy take action against these frauds, Just publishing Info doesn''t work. My colleague has personally gone through this situation. On receiving fake call from +1111 number, immediately this issue has been informed to Indian embassy through email & call, that the fraud person is going to call him again on the following day to receive fee amount approx 450 kwd at my friends residence here in Kuwait to remove his name from blacklist of Immigration department. In reply from Indian embassy through email & call, embassy has just informed to ignore such calls rather than legally tracing them here in Kuwait with the help of police. So that no other Expat go through these situations. I would also like to mention that on the following day the fraud person has called my friend again as agreed on previous day (to collect amount here in Kuwait) through Landline No. #######2 (Same as Indian Emb No.) to claim money. We just spoke to him to come to Indian embassy to collect money, he just hang up the phone & never called my friend again.