GURUGRAM: Police said on Friday they busted a fake call centre in Udyog Vihar-5, from where the accused cheated people of around Rs 1.25 crore by offering them lucrative jobs and promotions in multinational companies.
The accused – wanted for similar cases in other states — targeted people from across India and were operating the call centre from the last eight months, police said. The alleged scam was uncovered after a team led by Inspector Sunderpal of the Cyber Police Station raided the call centre in Udyog Vihar Phase-5 on Friday.
The call centre was owned by Sonu, a 35-year-old resident of Hansh Enclave in the city, and scam was facilitated with the help of four other partners, police said. According to the police, the accused acquired information about people through prominent websites for seeking jobs. They then reached out to those people with e-mails on made up job offers. To earn people’s trust, they had created a website, www.placementmnc.com, that claimed it had helped 18,000 people get jobs.
If the person responded, they would stage multiple rounds of interviews and eventually hand out forged appointment letters on letterheads displaying logos of MNCs.
Through the process, the accused asked to be paid Rs 6,500 for registration to their platform (PlacementMNC), another Rs 28,000 for verification of documents and nearly Rs 90,000 or more depending on the annual package offered as their commission for the job placement.
In some cases, they also charged people up to Rs 10 lakh a “security deposit” to get better jobs. “Those who are already in the job were lured in the name of a bigger package,” said Astha Modi, DCP (headquarters).
Gurugram ACP (crime) Preetpal Sangwan said told TOI the accused were running the centre since September last year.
Sonu’s brother Sanjay, Adnal (resident of Dwarka), Raj (resident of Kapashera), Adjat (resident of DLF Phase-3) were partners in running the racket, the ACP said.
“Both Sonu and Sanjay also have a history of job fraud and have other similar cases against them in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Gujarat and West Bengal,” Sangwan said.
A complaint has been filed under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forging document), 468 (forging document for purpose of cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and Section 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the IT Act.
The accused – wanted for similar cases in other states — targeted people from across India and were operating the call centre from the last eight months, police said. The alleged scam was uncovered after a team led by Inspector Sunderpal of the Cyber Police Station raided the call centre in Udyog Vihar Phase-5 on Friday.
The call centre was owned by Sonu, a 35-year-old resident of Hansh Enclave in the city, and scam was facilitated with the help of four other partners, police said. According to the police, the accused acquired information about people through prominent websites for seeking jobs. They then reached out to those people with e-mails on made up job offers. To earn people’s trust, they had created a website, www.placementmnc.com, that claimed it had helped 18,000 people get jobs.
If the person responded, they would stage multiple rounds of interviews and eventually hand out forged appointment letters on letterheads displaying logos of MNCs.
Through the process, the accused asked to be paid Rs 6,500 for registration to their platform (PlacementMNC), another Rs 28,000 for verification of documents and nearly Rs 90,000 or more depending on the annual package offered as their commission for the job placement.
In some cases, they also charged people up to Rs 10 lakh a “security deposit” to get better jobs. “Those who are already in the job were lured in the name of a bigger package,” said Astha Modi, DCP (headquarters).
Gurugram ACP (crime) Preetpal Sangwan said told TOI the accused were running the centre since September last year.
Sonu’s brother Sanjay, Adnal (resident of Dwarka), Raj (resident of Kapashera), Adjat (resident of DLF Phase-3) were partners in running the racket, the ACP said.
“Both Sonu and Sanjay also have a history of job fraud and have other similar cases against them in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Gujarat and West Bengal,” Sangwan said.
A complaint has been filed under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forging document), 468 (forging document for purpose of cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and Section 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the IT Act.
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