An Odisha girl, among many other job aspirants, was reportedly duped by a fake job racket in New Delhi recently.
According to Delhi police, the Crime Branch had begun an investigation to unearth the racket basing on a complaint lodged at it on March 6 by a girl from Bhubaneswar named Rachna.
The girl had on February 18 submitted her application paying a registration fee or `2,300. later, she also paid `600 as interview fee. The victim, suspecting the process as fake, cancelled the entire process and sought her money back. She was told that she would get the refund after two months.
On Wednesday, police arrested three youths, Abhimanyu (24), Om Vasudev Sharma (27) and Ravi Kashyap (24), all of Uttar Pradesh, from a fake call centre in laxmi Nagar.
The accused reportedly told police that they have duped job aspirants of `30 lakh so far in the last four months.
They purchased the data of unemployed youths from Monster.com and contacted them from the call centre.