India’s greatest job fraud busted by EOW, UP youth held in Odisha
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By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: A 25-year-old from Uttar Pradesh who had allegedly cheated about 50,000 youths to the tune of Rs 15 crore in promise for jobs was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch in what’s billed as India’s greatest employment fraud that used know-how for the con job.
Zafar Ahmed, a local of Aligarh and an engineer by career, was held by the EOW from UP. He is accused of defrauding children throughout states equivalent to Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat.
Led by Ahmed, the rip-off was executed by a bunch of extremely tech-savvy engineers from UP with assist of web site builders. The core group of fraudsters was assisted by about 50 name centre workers drawn largely from Jamalpur and Aligarh who have been reportedly paid Rs 15,000 per thirty days.
According to EOW IG Jai Narayan Pankaj, the accused used greater than 1,000 pretend SIM playing cards and 530 cellphones to cheat the job aspirants. To preserve the police at bay, they contacted the aspirants solely on WhatsApp voice calls.
The fraudsters used to avoid wasting their cell phone numbers utilizing the names of faux schemes to instil confidence among the many job aspirants in the event that they tried to confirm the contact particulars on Truecaller. By opening about 100 mule financial institution accounts, the group withdrew the cheated cash solely by way of Jan Seva Kendras through the use of fast response (QR) codes. There are many Jan Seva Kendras in UP and the accused withdrew the money by paying a ten per cent fee to the officers.
India’s greatest job fraud busted by EOW
“The scamsters developed websites which resembled government portals. They uploaded advertisements of employment opportunities which looked similar to government jobs to lure the aspirants. They were mainly promising jobs in health and skill departments. The frauds used names of some fake schemes with Pradhan Mantri as their prefixes to deceive the job aspirants,” stated Pankaj.
They additionally created pretend web sites equivalent to ‘Jeevan Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.jssy.in), Bharatiya Jana Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.bjsry.in), Gramin Samaj Manav Swasthya Seva (www.gsmsss.in ) to win the arrogance of the job aspirants. Advertisements have been revealed in native newspapers of Odisha through the use of pretend identities and funds have been made by way of mule financial institution accounts to keep away from getting caught. Each job aspirant was charged Rs 3,000 to Rs 50,000 in direction of registration, interview and coaching functions.
The fraud quantity might be far more than Rs 15 crore and the investigation is constant to unearth extra particulars, stated Pankaj. “EOW registered a case in this connection in September and has been investigating it for the last three months. The racket was active since 2020 and the accused amassed huge property worth crores of rupees in Aligarh with the ill-gotten money,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Ahmed, who was arrested with the help of UP Police, was produced earlier than a courtroom in Aligarh and delivered to Odisha on transit remand.
BHUBANESWAR: A 25-year-old from Uttar Pradesh who had allegedly cheated about 50,000 youths to the tune of Rs 15 crore in promise for jobs was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch in what’s billed as India’s greatest employment fraud that used know-how for the con job.
Zafar Ahmed, a local of Aligarh and an engineer by career, was held by the EOW from UP. He is accused of defrauding children throughout states equivalent to Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat.
Led by Ahmed, the rip-off was executed by a bunch of extremely tech-savvy engineers from UP with assist of web site builders. The core group of fraudsters was assisted by about 50 name centre workers drawn largely from Jamalpur and Aligarh who have been reportedly paid Rs 15,000 per thirty days.
According to EOW IG Jai Narayan Pankaj, the accused used greater than 1,000 pretend SIM playing cards and 530 cellphones to cheat the job aspirants. To preserve the police at bay, they contacted the aspirants solely on WhatsApp voice calls.
The fraudsters used to avoid wasting their cell phone numbers utilizing the names of faux schemes to instil confidence among the many job aspirants in the event that they tried to confirm the contact particulars on Truecaller. By opening about 100 mule financial institution accounts, the group withdrew the cheated cash solely by way of Jan Seva Kendras through the use of fast response (QR) codes. There are many Jan Seva Kendras in UP and the accused withdrew the money by paying a ten per cent fee to the officers.
India’s greatest job fraud busted by EOW
“The scamsters developed websites which resembled government portals. They uploaded advertisements of employment opportunities which looked similar to government jobs to lure the aspirants. They were mainly promising jobs in health and skill departments. The frauds used names of some fake schemes with Pradhan Mantri as their prefixes to deceive the job aspirants,” stated Pankaj.
They additionally created pretend web sites equivalent to ‘Jeevan Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.jssy.in), Bharatiya Jana Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.bjsry.in), Gramin Samaj Manav Swasthya Seva (www.gsmsss.in ) to win the arrogance of the job aspirants. Advertisements have been revealed in native newspapers of Odisha through the use of pretend identities and funds have been made by way of mule financial institution accounts to keep away from getting caught. Each job aspirant was charged Rs 3,000 to Rs 50,000 in direction of registration, interview and coaching functions.
The fraud quantity might be far more than Rs 15 crore and the investigation is constant to unearth extra particulars, stated Pankaj. “EOW registered a case in this connection in September and has been investigating it for the last three months. The racket was active since 2020 and the accused amassed huge property worth crores of rupees in Aligarh with the ill-gotten money,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Ahmed, who was arrested with the help of UP Police, was produced earlier than a courtroom in Aligarh and delivered to Odisha on transit remand.
