—Photo: Hindustan Times
New Delhi: Fake call centers abound in India to dupe people domestically and abroad, but Mumbai police have arrested dozens of employees and owners of fake call centers based on a “big breakfast order”.
According to the foreign news agency ‘AFP’, dozens of employees were not allowed to leave the building or communicate with people around the incident in a house in Rajodi Beach on the outskirts of India’s financial city of Mumbai.
But the police received a tip-off that dozens of breakfast orders were being received from the food stalls around the building, and these orders were usually placed at 4 am.
According to the police, the area is settled on the coastal belt and only on Saturdays and Sundays there is a heavy rush of local tourists, but on other days when we received 50 to 60 orders for tea or snacks, suspicion arose and we secretly Started monitoring the place.
He said that finally on the night of April 11, the police raided the house where there were 60 workstations and arrested the owner along with 47 employees. According to the police, they have registered a case against the accused under the Information Technology Act of India for fraud and other provisions and have also started computer forensics.
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