Odisha crime department arrests UP engineer for duping over 50,000 job aspirants

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha crime department of police on Saturday arrested an engineer, the mastermind of a job rip-off, from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping greater than 50,000 job aspirants of over Rs 15 crore in varied components of the nation.

The financial offences wing (EOW) of crime department nabbed Zafar Ahmed (25) from Aligarh after monitoring him for a very long time. Ahmed and his group have been working from Uttar Pradesh they usually cheated job aspirants from a number of states, together with Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat.

Sources stated the rip-off was executed by a bunch of extremely tech-savvy engineers with the assistance of some web site builders. The core group of fraudsters was assisted by about 50 name centre staff, largely from Jamalpur and Aligarh. They have been reportedly paid Rs 15,000 per 30 days.

According to EOW officers, the accused have been utilizing greater than 1,000 faux SIM playing cards and 530 cellphones to cheat the job aspirants. In an try and hoodwink the police, they contacted the job aspirants solely on WhatsApp voice calls.

The fraudsters had saved their cell phone numbers utilizing the names of pretend schemes to take the job aspirants into confidence in the event that they tried to confirm the contact particulars on Truecaller app.

They had opened about 100 mule financial institution accounts and have been withdrawing the cheated cash solely via Jan Seva Kendras (JSKs) through the use of the fast response codes. The accused individuals have been withdrawing enormous money from JSKs by paying 10 per cent fee.

IG of EOW Jai Narayan Pankaj stated the scamsters had developed web sites which resembled authorities portals. They uploaded ads of presidency jobs to lure aspirants searching for employment alternatives in well being or ability departments. They used some schemes of the Central authorities to deceive the job aspirants, he stated.

The investigating company has detected some faux web sites developed by the group to dupe the job aspirants. The net portals are ‘Jeevan Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.jssy.in), Bharatiya Jana Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.bjsry.in), Gramin Samaj Manav Swasthya Seva (www.gsmsss.in), amongst others.

The fraudsters used to publish ads in native newspapers through the use of faux identities and made funds for ads via mule financial institution accounts to keep away from getting caught by the police.

They have been charging Rs 3,000 to Rs 50,000 from the job aspirants on the pretext of registration, interview and coaching functions. The fraud quantity could possibly be far more than Rs 15 crore and investigation is constant to unearth extra particulars in regards to the rip-off, Pankaj added.

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BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha crime department of police on Saturday arrested an engineer, the mastermind of a job rip-off, from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping greater than 50,000 job aspirants of over Rs 15 crore in varied components of the nation.

The financial offences wing (EOW) of crime department nabbed Zafar Ahmed (25) from Aligarh after monitoring him for a very long time. Ahmed and his group have been working from Uttar Pradesh they usually cheated job aspirants from a number of states, together with Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat.

Sources stated the rip-off was executed by a bunch of extremely tech-savvy engineers with the assistance of some web site builders. The core group of fraudsters was assisted by about 50 name centre staff, largely from Jamalpur and Aligarh. They have been reportedly paid Rs 15,000 per 30 days.

According to EOW officers, the accused have been utilizing greater than 1,000 faux SIM playing cards and 530 cellphones to cheat the job aspirants. In an try and hoodwink the police, they contacted the job aspirants solely on WhatsApp voice calls.

The fraudsters had saved their cell phone numbers utilizing the names of pretend schemes to take the job aspirants into confidence in the event that they tried to confirm the contact particulars on Truecaller app.

They had opened about 100 mule financial institution accounts and have been withdrawing the cheated cash solely via Jan Seva Kendras (JSKs) through the use of the fast response codes. The accused individuals have been withdrawing enormous money from JSKs by paying 10 per cent fee.

IG of EOW Jai Narayan Pankaj stated the scamsters had developed web sites which resembled authorities portals. They uploaded ads of presidency jobs to lure aspirants searching for employment alternatives in well being or ability departments. They used some schemes of the Central authorities to deceive the job aspirants, he stated.

The investigating company has detected some faux web sites developed by the group to dupe the job aspirants. The net portals are ‘Jeevan Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.jssy.in), Bharatiya Jana Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (www.bjsry.in), Gramin Samaj Manav Swasthya Seva (www.gsmsss.in), amongst others.

The fraudsters used to publish ads in native newspapers through the use of faux identities and made funds for ads via mule financial institution accounts to keep away from getting caught by the police.

They have been charging Rs 3,000 to Rs 50,000 from the job aspirants on the pretext of registration, interview and coaching functions. The fraud quantity could possibly be far more than Rs 15 crore and investigation is constant to unearth extra particulars in regards to the rip-off, Pankaj added.

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