Rogue Debt Collectors Go Above and Beyond for Vodafone, With Expected Bad Results

There’s showing initiative — like the time I emptied the dishwasher at work without being asked — and then there’s showing too much initiative, like when you decide to steal from your employer and consumers in your one stroke of backfiring genius.

An Indian collection agency working on behalf of Vodafone — a telecommunications company that gets more play overseas than it does here in America, like the humor of Jerry Lewis or those commercials American actors do in Japan — discovered that two of its employees had gone rogue.

Vodafone VP (Corporate Affairs) Anil Katyal told the Indian Times, “There are persons collecting monthly bills of Vodafone, impersonating the company’s employees. They contact our customers for collection of outstanding payments against their monthly bills.”

Those persons, identified only as Neeraj and Tribhuvan in the story, “worked with a collection agency of Vodafone and made calls to customers reminding them of their due bill payments. If the customer agreed, Neeraj would send Tribhuvan to collect the money,” said Sanjay Bhatia, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime).

Where they went rogue: they would not give the money to the debt collection agency they were working for.

Though the duo have been arrested, there is no detail, as yet, as to what the repercussions are for their actions.