Crime Branch exposes Naukri.com scam;Over Rs 15 lakh embezzled from Jammu youth; 4 arrested

STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Crime Branch wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police has exposed a gang of interstate cyber criminals wherein four accused have been arrested so far while Rs. 11 lakh has been recovered from their possession. These accused were using a fabricated site Naukri.com to lure the unemployed youth.
SSP Mubassir Latiffi said, the investigations to expose this racket started after a Jammu based youth lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch. The arrested accused have been identified as Prateek Sharma, son of Naresh Kumar Sharma, Mani Masih Gill, son of Jacob Masih, Sandeep Bhati, son of Bhagat Lala Bhati, all residents of Ghaziabad and Gourav Tyagi, son of Late Dinesh Tyagi, resident of Noida. These accused were using their fake names to dodge the innocent unemployed youth.
Later, on the revelations made by these accused an amount of Rs. 11,02,880 recovered from three of them. However, the investigation of the case is still under progress to ascertain the involvement of some more persons, SSP said.
Acting on a written complaint lodged by one Arun Bandral, son of Parladh Singh, resident of Ward No. 4 near New Bus Stand, Samba wherein he alleged that he submitted his resume in Naukri.com. He received a call from Expert Noukri Services (Sonstant Company) named Ashish who offered him a job in a multinational company in India/Abroad and also gave his account number and asked him to deposit Rs. 2500 and then send the deposit slip on company Email id [email protected].
Ashish again called him and ask to deposit Rs. 6,500 as verification fee, Rs. 16,800 as job security fee etc. and after few days the complainant received a call from one Aryan who told him that he has been selected in TATA Project Company but has to deposit Rs. 25,400 in the company A/c for the interview.
After few days again he received a call from Aryan who again asked to deposit Rs. 27,890 on the pretext of qualifying the first round of interview and similarly a total sum of Rs. 4,21,280 was deposited by the complainant from time to time after which he received an offer letter and subsequently an unknown person came to his residence and took photographs of his house and family members on the pretext of his verification and thereafter he again received a call from Ayran that since he has been selected for the TATA Project in abroad therefore he has to further deposit Rs. 4.00 lakh within shortest possible time which the complainant Arun Bandral deposited.
He again received a call from one Varun Tyagi who demanded Rs. 88,000 which the complainant deposited and was told that he will join the company in mid of January 2015, but after few days Aryan again asked the complainant to deposit Rs. 5.15 lakh as the joining letter has to signed by the CEO of TATA Project which were also deposited in the account of Gourav Tyagi but even after waiting for considerable period of time and depositing Rs. 15, 92,380 in the account numbers provided by the accused persons from time to time neither the job was provided to him nor his money was returned.
On the receipt of this complaint an enquiry was conducted and during the course of enquiry it was revealed that the accused had used various mobile numbers and account numbers. They used fake names to lure and cheat the complainant on the pretext of providing him a job and in the process had duped him of Rs.15,92,380.
Accordingly, a case has been registered and the investigation has been entrusted to Inspector Kewal Kishore Gupta.
These accused are involved in many similar cases, informed CB sleuths, adding that a major scam has been unearthed with the arrest of these four accused involved in cyber crime.
These accused hack the names and addresses from various sites to trap the innocent unemployed youth.