Man arrested for deceiving people with fake job ads
A 48-year-old man was arrested from Kolkata for allegedly duping people by posting fake job advertisements online for work abroad, Delhi police said on Saturday. The accused, identified as Samir Arvind Parekh, a resident of Guwahati in Assam, confessed to having cheated over 25 persons with the promise of securing jobs abroad, it further said.
Victims were conned in the name of registration fees
The accused and his associates contacted victims online and promised to provide them employment abroad. On this assurance, the accused and his associate got the victims to deposit money on the pretext of a registration fee, medical examination, and interview. The matter came to notice after one of the victims approached the police with her complaint.
One of the victims responded to an ad for chef
The woman runs a home food delivery service from Chattarpur. During March's first week, she saw an advertisement posted online for a chef's job abroad and contacted the person concerned, who offered a $2,000 salary to work as a chef at a US restaurant. She deposited Rs. 36,000 as a registration fee. Later, when she tried contacting the person, the phone was switched off.
Police investigation revealed that many were cheated the same way
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Kumar Thakur said, "A case was registered and during the probe, we found that all the contact numbers were taken on fake addresses." "Bank statements of the beneficiary accounts were obtained and analyzed, which revealed many other victims were also cheated by the fraudster for jobs in the USA and Canada," he added.
The accused was arrested on April 7
"With the help of technical details, the accused was identified and a police team was sent to the Kasba area of Kolkata where Parekh was arrested on April 7 after several raids," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Thakur said.
A number of things were recovered from the accused
The accused has been involved in various cases of job fraud. He works as a labor contractor and got ideas to cheat people on the pretext of providing them jobs abroad, the DCP said. Four ATM debit cards, a forged Aadhar card, a PAN card, and a smartphone were recovered from the accused, police said, adding further investigation is underway.
