NEW DELHI: Delhi Police’s Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit on Sunday claimed to have busted a fake work-from-home (WFH) job racket and arrested four people.
According to investigators, the accused offered data entry and WFH jobs and, then, extorted money. “We received complaints that websites like https://theresumesearch.com, https://www.jobsearchnet.in and https://resumetofill.com were engaged in cheating people by promising them work-from-home jobs,” DCP (IFSO) K P S Malhotra said.
These websites gave people tasks that were impossible to complete and, later, extorted money by threatening to drag them to court. A search on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal was conducted and it was found that there were more than 60 complaints lodged by different victims.
During the investigation, a team under ACP (IFSO) Raman Lamba nabbed four people, including a woman, from Delhi. They were identified as Rohit Kumar, the registrant of the website, Mohit Singh and Tarun Kumar. Tarun and the woman, whose name was not disclosed, were telecallers. “Rohit had created these websites and, then, started calling unemployed people for data entry jobs,” the officer said.
Investigators said the fraudulent job portals collected resumes of people looking for data entry and work-from-home jobs. They also sent messages to the user, claiming that they could provide similar online work.
“Job seekers are made to sign legal agreements that if they fail to complete the work on time, they would have to pay a penalty. They are then given impossible tasks,” an investigator said.
Having failed to complete the task, the applicant pays the charges due under the agreement. However, the fraudsters keep on demanding more money by sending legal notices.
According to investigators, the accused offered data entry and WFH jobs and, then, extorted money. “We received complaints that websites like https://theresumesearch.com, https://www.jobsearchnet.in and https://resumetofill.com were engaged in cheating people by promising them work-from-home jobs,” DCP (IFSO) K P S Malhotra said.
These websites gave people tasks that were impossible to complete and, later, extorted money by threatening to drag them to court. A search on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal was conducted and it was found that there were more than 60 complaints lodged by different victims.
During the investigation, a team under ACP (IFSO) Raman Lamba nabbed four people, including a woman, from Delhi. They were identified as Rohit Kumar, the registrant of the website, Mohit Singh and Tarun Kumar. Tarun and the woman, whose name was not disclosed, were telecallers. “Rohit had created these websites and, then, started calling unemployed people for data entry jobs,” the officer said.
Investigators said the fraudulent job portals collected resumes of people looking for data entry and work-from-home jobs. They also sent messages to the user, claiming that they could provide similar online work.
“Job seekers are made to sign legal agreements that if they fail to complete the work on time, they would have to pay a penalty. They are then given impossible tasks,” an investigator said.
Having failed to complete the task, the applicant pays the charges due under the agreement. However, the fraudsters keep on demanding more money by sending legal notices.
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