Cyber cell of Madhya Pradesh police arrested accused from Indore who was cheating in the name of getting a job by posting it on Facebook; the accused cheated several victims and duped lakhs to rupees.
The accused identified as Alok Azad used to make fraud calls to people from his house for the past two months. By asking unemployed youth to get a job, the accused would lure them to deposit money. He would offer jobless people jobs in reputed companies.
The accused also used to send fake job offer letters to the victims through WhatsApp. A complaint was lodged by Haris Khan that on June 15, he received details through Facebook advertising of a person named HR Sharma who offered to help in a job in a national company. After that a total of Rs 34200 was cheated from the complainant in the name of registration charge, training charge, confirmation charge and processing charge.
The police registered a case 420 of IPC and started investigation against the users of phonepe numbers and mobile numbers used in fraud. Accused created an ID on Facebook under the name Work from Home and posts his mobile number on it for contact.
Those who contacted the accused on the phone for a job, he would offer a job to those people, after which registration charge was taken in the name of giving jobs to unemployed people and they were charged with different types of charges by providing fake joining letters. The accused was arrested in Indore on the basis of the evidence obtained from technical analysis and seized one mobile phone and three SIM cards used in the crime.