Taking advantage of youth desperate for employment, five fraudsters from Noida duped 1,000 job seekers across the country. The gang sourced information of the prospective candidates from leading online portals, and extracted money from them promising them employment. All five have been arrested by the cyber crime police, who are contemplating to evoke sections of data theft in the case.
Taking advantage of youth desperate for employment, five fraudsters from Noida duped 1,000 job seekers across the country. The gang sourced information of the prospective candidates from leading online portals, and extracted money from them promising them employment. All five have been arrested by the cyber crime police, who are contemplating to evoke sections of data theft in the case.
The arrested have been identified as Shubham Kumar, 23, Mayank Rohilla, 19, Kapil Chaudhary, 28, Devrath Yadava, 21 and Kafeel Khan, 26.
In November last year, one Jyoti Thakur approached the cyber crime police saying that she had received a call from a lady named Pooja Yadav, who informed her that she has got a job with Axis Bank. Yadav also told her to email scanned copies of her pan card, mark sheets and other documents to banklist995@yahoo.co.in.
According to inspector Kalpana Gadekar from cyber crime police, the complainant later received another call and was given an ICICI account number asking her to deposit Rs1,500 for the verification process.
The inspector added: "She deposited the money thinking that she has got a job in Axis bank, but when she received another call demanding Rs15,000 be deposited, Jyoti got suspicious and approached the officials at Axis bank, who told her that their recruitment happens only through examination conducted by them."
She added: "It was then that she approached us, and we launched an investigation into the matter."
During the investigation, police traced the IP address of the email address given to Jyoti to a lady named Kirti Khuswa in Ghaziabad. Also, the account number given to Jyoti was opened in Kirti's name.
PI Gadekar said: "When a team of officials made enquiries with Kirti, it was revealed that she was a partner in a company called M/s Career Development. She said that she was asked to create an email address and open a bank account by two of the arrested men, Kumar and Rohilla."
The inspector added that after interrogating the two, they spilled the names of Chaudhary, Yadav and Khan, who were also arrested from Noida.
The five had set up an elaborate system to dupe job seekers. They opened a 'placement company' named Balaji Sevices in Noida, and after getting details from popular job portals, the five would dupe youngsters of thousands of rupees.
Addionally, they rented five different premises and employed tele-callers to contact the victims. They had specifically used places which already had an office set up, with computers available on hire so that nothing could be traced back to them.
Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) KMM Prasanna, said: "On the basis of a single complaint, our team unearthed the entire racket. The training that our officers are undergoing in cyber crime investigation have helped them a great deal."
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