A gang that used to impersonate as representatives of a leading corporate and dupe youths by offering them jobs has been busted. The Mumbai’s police’s cyber unit, along with officials of Rajouri police station in New Delhi, raided a call centre in the national capital recently and arrested Vipin Rajpalsingh Yadav and Mohit Rakumar Yadav. The police said that hunt is on for other members of the gang. They seized 22 mobile phones, SIM cards, bank passbooks, two computers, routers, printers and digital notebooks containing list of victims from the accused’s Rajouri Garden call centre.
An official said that the gang would email youngsters seeking jobs on social media and lure them with supervisors’ posts in the auto major. “The accused had created an email address similar to that of corporate and used it to communicate with the victims. They would email appointment letters and seek a security deposit of Rs 25,000,” he said.
Recently, one Payal Gupta asked a victim to deposit Rs 3,400 in a bank account. “Later, the victim got a selection letter with the company logo stating that she has been appointed supervisor in the company’s Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) unit with a monthly salary of Rs 25,500. The letter stated that the victim should contact HR manager Aditi Lochab. But when the victim called up Lochab, another Rs 17,000 was demanded. The victim was told the money will be reimbursed in the first salary. But when, after a month, no appointment letter arrived, the victim contacted the corporate’s head office in Mumbai, only to realise it was a con.” A senior executive of the company then lodged a complaint with the cyber police and the IP address for the computer used to send emails was traced to Delhi.
Eleven staffers found working at the call centre said they were unaware about their work being illegal, said the police. Their statements were recorded and they were allowed to go.
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