Four held for duping job aspirant through fake placement firm

Four youths have been arrested for allegedly cheating a job aspirant to the tune of Rs 2.6 lakh by running a fake placement agency call centre, a police official said.

City's cyber crime police arrested Sagar Mishra, Shashank Rana, Sagar Mishra and Tarun Chandra who are in their twenties from Delhi, Noida, Uttar Pradesh and Orisa respectively, an official said.

"A 29-year-old youth in his complaint said that in August 2016 he had received a call from a call centre of 'Carrier Pro' placement company about a vacancy in a leading car manufacturing company ," Neeta Phadke, Senior Police Inspector of Cyber Police Station said.
 

"The executives of the placement company asked him to send his details on company's e-mail ID. The complainant sent his details and deposited Rs 41,000 through Paytm towards registration fees, security deposit and document verification," she said.

However, despite the calls and mails, the complainant did not receive any job offer from the car company, she added.

"The youth then sought his money back from the placement agency as he felt that he was being cheated. The executives contacted him and asked his bank details so that his money could be deposited in his account," police said.

Accordingly, he shared his bank details, including his password to them, following which Rs 1.65 lakh were siphoned off from his bank account, they said.

The youth, who was duped to the tune of Rs 2.6 lakh, approached the Cyber police. An offence was registered on February 5 against unidentified persons.

"Cyber police traced the details of an account to which his money was transferred. These accounts were found in Delhi, Noida, Uttar Pradesh and Orissa," Phadke said.

Police raided a call centre at Lakshminagar, Pitampura in Rohini in the national capital, from where the complainant had received the calls about the job vacancies, she said.

"We arrested four accused who were running this fake job racket. The accused have been remanded in police custody till February 20," Phadke said adding that there was a possibility that the accused have cheated a few more job seekers.