Two arrested from Laxmi Nagar for running fake govt. job scam
The accused persons, one from Telangana and the other from Assam, have been booked under BNS Sections 318(4) (cheating) and 319(2) (cheating by personation), an officer said.
The police were alerted about the racket after the Ministry of Rural Development filed a complaint on March 22 reporting the circulation of fraudulent recruitment advertisements on fake websites carrying the images of Ministers and senior government officials.
An investigation was launched. A QR code was found linked to the websites, which the victims' used to pay job registration fees. 'This money was credited into a Central Bank of India account of Assam via this QR Code. The money was further siphoned off to multiple accounts and subsequently withdrawn through ATMs,' a senior officer involved in the investigation said. After analysing footage of cash withdrawals, the police traced and arrested one of the accused from Shakarpur, Laxmi Nagar.
On sustained interrogation, he disclosed the location of the second accused, the officer said. The second accused, the mastermind of the racket, was arrested from Laxmi Nagar too.
DCP (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla said, 'The second accused had recruited a team of specialist web developers to create fake websites that resembled genuine government websites. The recruitment advertisements were also promoted on social media and in newspapers to lure more victims. The registration fees paid by the victims were routed to bank accounts operated by the accused and later siphoned off through mule accounts and ATM withdrawals.'
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