A 25-year-old senior analyst in a BPO has registered a case with Rabale police after she was cheated of ₹2.75 lakh on the promise of a job in a reputed MNC.
The complainant, currently a resident of Nagpur, was living in Airoli in 2018. On April 19, 2018 she received a call from one Kiran claiming to be from the helpdesk of monster.com . She said that she would get a guaranteed job either at Infosys, Accenture or Wipro and her colleague Amit Khanna would share more details with her.
Soon, Mr. Khanna called her making the same assurances and asked her to deposit money in installments for the interview process, profile verification, digital resume and backdoor entry process. Two others, Aman Tripathi and a person identified as Neeraj, were also in regular touch with the complainant through emails and phone calls, asking her to send money to various accounts.
16 transactions
“Nearly 16 transactions were made for various reasons. The complainant paid a total of ₹2.75 lakh. Later, when they stopped taking her calls, she became suspicious and registered a complaint,” assistant police inspector Haresh Kalsekar from Rabale police station said.
The police along with the cyber cell conducted a primary inquiry and found that the number used to make the calls allegedly from monster.com , was fake. The same number has been mentioned in multiple complaints from other people who claimed to have been similarly cheated.
“The complainant had by then moved to Nagpur so the FIR was lodged last week when she came here,” Mr. Kalsekar said. The mobile number and bank accounts are located in different States. Ms. Kiran, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Aman and Mr. Neeraj have been booked under Sections 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC and 66 (c) (identity theft) of the IT Act.
