Cyber Crime sleuths have nabbed a 28-year-old miscreant involved in duping several vicitms in the name of providing jobs and placements using a fake job website.The accused had cheated a lot of people in Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and duped crores of rupees.
The nabbed accused was identified as Vinay Singh alias Bittu who was involved in the organised crime in which a gang was targetting potential job seekers, asking people to deposit their money in the bank acounts to facilitate jobs.
The matter surfaced after victim Ghanshyam Maheswari of Kolar lodged a complaint that the placement service company shine.com had duped Rs 8 lakh in the name of facilitating a job.
Based on the complaint, a case under section 420 of the IPC and section 66 of the IT act was registered and in the investigation, it was found that Vinay Singh alias Bittu of Gautam Budh Nagar Uttar Pradesh was behind the fraud . later on, he confessed that he used to work for Avinash Kumar Singh and Ankit Sonewal of Jharkhand. He used to call the applicants in the name of Shine.com Company and would persuade them to deposit money in several bank accounts for facilitating jobs. The bank accounts were managed by another accomplice Kishanpal alias Fauji alias Prashant Gupta.