Noida: A 29-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly duping hundreds of job seekers by sending them “offer letters” for money from fake email IDs in the name of the HR department of an IT company. Pawan Kumar was nabbed by the cyber cell in NSEZ area on Tuesday evening on the complaint of Tech Mahindra.
Pawan, police said, had initially floated two fake websites — techmahindrajobs.com and mahindra.jobspost.com — to con job aspirants. Later he used to directly contact aspirants pretending to be HR executives of Tech Mahindra and offer jobs to them. Fake offer letters would be sent to the applicants once they deposited “file charges” between Rs 2,000 and Rs 15,000 before getting the interview call.
Baljeet Singh, in-charge of the Centre for Cyber Crime and Investigation Cell (CCCI), told TOI that Pawan had sourced the data of his targets, mostly engineering and management graduates, from different job portals. “He had operated the fake websites and email IDs for a year before they were suspended on a complaint by Tech Mahindra. However, for the past one year, the accused had been making calls to the targets and sending them fake offer letters after getting money,” he said.
In fact, in the FIR lodged at the Phase II police station, the NSEZ office of Tech Mahindra, has also alleged that the accused had also been using a Paytm e-wallet in the name of Mahindra Limited to dupe the victims.
Additional DCP (crime) Ashok Kumar Singh told TOI that Pawan, who worked at a call centre in Dehradun’s Rispanapul area around two years back, was arrested for duping around 300-400 youths. A laptop, a pen drive, four mobile phones and eight SIM cards were seized from him. When contacted, a representative from Tech Mahindra’s the legal team, Jitesh Srivastava, said an FIR was lodged from the company's side and “other officials from the firm have been following up on the issue”.
Pawan, police said, had initially floated two fake websites — techmahindrajobs.com and mahindra.jobspost.com — to con job aspirants. Later he used to directly contact aspirants pretending to be HR executives of Tech Mahindra and offer jobs to them. Fake offer letters would be sent to the applicants once they deposited “file charges” between Rs 2,000 and Rs 15,000 before getting the interview call.
Baljeet Singh, in-charge of the Centre for Cyber Crime and Investigation Cell (CCCI), told TOI that Pawan had sourced the data of his targets, mostly engineering and management graduates, from different job portals. “He had operated the fake websites and email IDs for a year before they were suspended on a complaint by Tech Mahindra. However, for the past one year, the accused had been making calls to the targets and sending them fake offer letters after getting money,” he said.
In fact, in the FIR lodged at the Phase II police station, the NSEZ office of Tech Mahindra, has also alleged that the accused had also been using a Paytm e-wallet in the name of Mahindra Limited to dupe the victims.
Additional DCP (crime) Ashok Kumar Singh told TOI that Pawan, who worked at a call centre in Dehradun’s Rispanapul area around two years back, was arrested for duping around 300-400 youths. A laptop, a pen drive, four mobile phones and eight SIM cards were seized from him. When contacted, a representative from Tech Mahindra’s the legal team, Jitesh Srivastava, said an FIR was lodged from the company's side and “other officials from the firm have been following up on the issue”.
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