CROOKED call centre workers in India are flogging details of Britons’ bank accounts, a Sun probe has found.

Our undercover reporter Oliver Harvey was sold the top secret information on a thousand accounts, and numbers of passports and credit cards.

Harvey, who paid a total of 5,000 US dollars (£2,750) for the information and was asked for another £275 to be sent later, was told details usually cost £4.25 but he was getting a special deal.

Kkaran Bahree, who said he got the details from a network of call centre workers in Delhi, also boasted that he could get up to 2,000 account details a month.

I've been warning the public of this for the past five years, ever since I encountered firsthand at American Express, the migration of information technology jobs to foreign locales, and where your personal data is freely available to a third world nation where bribes still prevade much of daily business details.

Again, I implore Congress to pass legislation to make it a crime for American companies to allow viewing of critical personal data, including social security numbers and credit card account numbers, by foreign personnel.