The Cyber Cell of Gurugram police has arrested a total of 22 people, including nine women, running a fake call centre involved in duping hundreds of job seekers of over Rs. 1.25 crore in the last six months, an official said on Friday.
The police has also seized 21 computers, 27 mobile phones, one laptop and Rs. 38,000 in cash during their raid on the call centre operating from the millennium city, Udyog Vihar-Phase 5, he said.
After the arrests, 19 of them are on bail and the three main accused are produced before the court which remanded them in police custody for further interrogation, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Preet Pal Singh Sangwan said.
Explaining the details on the incident Sangwan said, the modus operandi of duping people by the fake call centre, they were operating a fake website called placement.com. They use to secure the details of job seekers from some genuine employment guidance websites.
After acquiring details of the job seekers, the people from website people called them. The Job seekers were offered such jobs that were non-existent.
An amount of Rs. 6,500 were asked for registration and then another sum of Rs. 28,000 for the verification of their documents and other credentials. They demanded a sum of Rs. 89,000 as commission for the job. This amount was for the offer letter which would be delivered on the receiving payment, ACP Sangwan said.
The ACP has also said that during questioning of the accused persons, they have confessed that they duped people of over Rs. 1.25 crore in the last six months alone. With PTI Inputs
