A woman, along with her two male accomplices, has beenarrested for the crime of offering fake jobs.
The gang used to lure job seekers who lost jobs during thepandemic and asked them to deposit money to get job in the national carrier.
Fake job letters and interviews were also conducted to wintheir trust.
The police got active after a woman approached Palam Villagepolice station and lodged a complaint about being duped more than Rs 71,000.She told the police that she had been with Zomato since 2017 but lost her jobdue to the pandemic. She was looking for an opportunity and received an emailfrom the purported Air India email address regarding a job appointment with theairline.
As desired she shared her resume and deposited Rs 1,875 atfirst. She then received an offer letter and was asked to deposit money foruniform, verification among others. However, she got suspicious.
"On the basis of technical analysis, cyber surveillanceswooped down on a man named Shadab Malik resident of Hindon Vihar, Ghaziabad,UP who was earlier arrested in similar kind of offence by Uttarakhand Police.
"Malik was running a call centre from S-Block,Sector-12, Noida. He along with his accomplice Kumud Ranjan Kamlesh andPriyanka Goswami were arrested," said Devender Arya, DCP South West Delhi.
Malik along with his associates had made an employer accounton Job ad portal www.shine.com using fake identity and obtained job seekersdetails including their email addresses, name and phone numbers.
Kamesh registered multiple accounts in his name and alsoobtained SIM Cards of many telecom service providers. Thereafter the accusedstarted contacting the job seekers through email and telephonic calls. Theycontacted thousands of job seekers and availed the opportunity to dupe theunemployed
Then posing as HR, Interviewer and Verification Officersthey duped the victims of thousands of rupees.
"Till now 12 forged bank accounts of the accusedpersons have been identified. The gang has been live for 5 months.Approximately, Rs 60 lakh was credited in these fake accounts, the officeradded.
The team seemed to have preyed upon the financial crisisbrought forward due to the pandemic COVID-19.