Eight people, including three women, were arrested for duping around 100 people of Rs 25 to 30 lakh on the pretext of providing them with jobs, police said on Wednesday.
Police have identified the accused as Praveendra Kumar Jha, Amit Kumar, Shiv Kumar, Mohammad Nurulahak Ansari and Mohit. However, the identities of three other women accused have been withheld.
The accused mostly targeted doctors and nurses.
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A woman, Ayushi Daga, had lodged a complaint alleging that she was contacted by a person, who introduced himself as Kunal Tripathi, a representative of an online job-providing website. Tripathi told her that a vacancy for a dentist was available in a private hospital, a senior police officer said.
He asked her to deposit Rs 3,500 to initiate the registration process for getting placement. In total, the accused cheated her of Rs 99,000 on the pretext of charges for registration and verification of documents, the officer said.
During analysis of call details record of alleged mobile numbers, it was found that the call to the complainant was made from Noida Sector-10. Thereafter, police conducted a raid and busted a call centre.
The accused were cheating people on the pretext of providing jobs and mostly targeted doctors and nurses, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said.
During the inquiry, it was revealed that the call centre had been running for the past two years. The accused used data purchased from an online website to call their potential targets. They would lure the targets on the pretext of providing placement at various platforms and cheat them, police said.
They have duped around 100 people from various parts of the country of Rs 25 to 30 lakh, they added.
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