But police received a tip-off that somebody was repeatedly ordering dozens of breakfasts from a close-by eatery — and at 4:00 am.

“The beach resort is full of tourists on weekends and almost deserted on other days. So the 50 to 60 tea and breakfast orders so early every morning for many days raised our suspicion and we started secretly monitoring the place,” police officer Suhas Bavche advised AFP.

Police lastly raided the home, which had a flooring with 60 workstations, on the evening of April 11 and arrested the proprietor and 47 staff.

They have been charged with impersonation, dishonest and fraud beneath India’s Information Technology Act. Authorities had additionally commenced a forensic examination of the computer systems.

The investigation up to now has revealed that younger staff had been skilled to obtain calls from unsuspecting financial institution clients from Australia, Bavche stated.

They allegedly extracted delicate private particulars and safety data — together with one-time passwords — from them and handed the knowledge on to managers over e mail, the officer stated.

“This could be the tip of the iceberg. We are investigating international connections for the racket,” he added.

“Such fake call centres operating from one place for a couple of months at a time are regularly busted across the country.”

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