Gurugram, Apr 15 (IANS): A fake call centre has been busted while 22 people including the owner have been arrested here for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing them jobs in MNCs, the police said on Friday.
The owner who was running the fake call centre has been identified as Sonu. The arrested individuals include 13 men and 9 women.
Sonu is a resident of Hans Enclave of Gurugram. His brother Sanjay and co-partners Anil, Deepak, Raj and Ajit are yet to be arrested.
The brothers started the call centre in Udyog Vihar Phase-5 of Gurugram in September which was registered in the name of a 'Premium Erutidion'. They had also purchased a domain '@placementmnc.com' for sending e-mails to job aspirants, the police said.
The police raided the spot on Thursday afternoon after a tip-off and recovered Rs 38,000 cash, 27 mobile phones, 1 laptop and fake appointment letters from there.
Subhash Boken, spokesperson of the Gurugram police said Sonu and Sanjay had established this fake call centre in September 2021, and earned Rs 1.25 crore while duping people on the pretext of providing them jobs.
"The accused used to collect data of job aspirants from the prominent job websites and used to develop communication with them through different e-mail IDs and charged Rs 6,500, Rs 28,000, and Rs 89,000 on a different pretext. They had even charged Rs 10 lakh as commission per person," Boken said.
"They also targeted people already by luring them lucrative packages and used to charge money from them through fake website payment gateway or different payment links in their bank accounts. The accused used to provide fake appointment letters," he added.
Police said the accused had also provided a fake Press identity card to mislead police.
"To lure job aspirants, the accused had also claimed through his website that he has provided jobs to 18,500 people after seeing such advertisements the victims used to attract and lost their money," he said.
"Four cases of similar nature were already registered against the duo brothers in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Gujarat and West Bengal, the police disclosed.