Fake job racket busted, 69 nabbed, 2 call centres sealed in UP

Busting a fake job racket, sleuths of Special Task Force of UP police today arrested 69 persons, including 21 women, and sealed two Noida-located call centres, a senior STF official said.
At least 69 persons were arrested and two call centres, located in B-block of sector-5 and D-block in sector-10 of Noida, were sealed, Additional Superintendent of Police (UPSTF) Triveni Singh said.
The accused working in the call centres used to contact job seekers posing as representatives of online job portals, where they had applied, and asked to make a payment for the job, he said.
After taking the amount they also gave fake appointment letters to some of the victims, he said explaining the modus operandi.

Information of 13 bank accounts of the accused were recovered, he said adding that the STF is scrutinising the accounts to calculate the amount of fraud committed by them.
The information about the victims used by them was retrieved famous job portals, the ASP said.
Several victims had complained to the STF in Lucknow about the online job fraud following which the force initiated an investigation and seized the call centres after tracing them, the ASP said.