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These types of social media teasers and advertisements are allegedly being used by a Sector V-based “placement agency” to deceive thousands of job seekers into parting with money under the false pretence that doing so will secure them positions at various businesses.
Stairs Academy of Competitive Aspirant (P) Ltd, which has offices in Sector V’s Godrej Genesis building, appeared to be a corporate office, according to officers from the Salt Lake cyber crime police station who raided it on Thursday morning.
The police conducted the operation after receiving a complaint from a job seeker from Uttarakhand at the Salt Lake cybercrime police station a few days prior.
“All the arrested suspects would first gather the contact information and online profiles of job seekers from all over the nation using a variety of methods, including websites that list open positions and permit job seekers to upload their resumes so that employers can get in touch with them. Then they would call them and offer to place them in reputable businesses for a charge,” the officer claimed.
The callers frequently called their victims to the Sector V office for a “interview” in order to sound credible and win their trust, the officer claimed. He stated that fake appointment letters for several IT majors would be distributed.
The victim would allegedly be requested to pay a “placement fee” after being made to sit down for the “interview” and receiving a “appointment letter.” The victims would discover they had been duped after the cash was made because calling the centre produced no results, the office claimed.
An officer who was a part of the team that raided the office claimed that the “agency” had a dress code and that personnel dressed professionally to win the trust of job searchers.
“We have searched a number of supposed employment agencies that were defrauding people. Because it was so well-organized, job searchers had a hard time realising they were being conned, according to the officer.
According to the police, all 27 people detained were presented in court in Salt Lake on Thursday. Five of them were placed in police custody for four days while the other eleven were detained in jail for fourteen.
The police have closed down three allegedly fake “placement agencies” in the previous three weeks.