Cyber sleuths have nabbed a 27-year-old software developer for duping 50 victims to the tunes of lakhs of rupees in the name of providing jobs through fake job portal.
Police said that the accused Shailesh Mishra was nabbed from Noida in Uttar Pradesh. The accused after completing his BTech (EC) was working with IT Spark technology in Noida.
The accused used to run a fake consultancy service and job portal which would dupe victims looking for jobs and ask to deposit money for facilitating job.
One of the victims Anant Patel of Ashoka Garden who works for a private firm uploaded his resume and after one month, he received calls from different mobile numbers regarding facilitating of jobs and would require money for getting the job done. The callers told him that they operate naukari4jobs consultancy and allindiajobservices.com job portal.
Anant lodged a complaint after he was duped by the accused and based on the complaint, police found that the accused was operating the portal and consultancy from Noida.
The accused used to lure victims of providing jobs in renowned companies and for facilitating jobs, he would ask for money from the victims. The victims deposited the money demanded by the accused.
The accused operate consultancy service naukari4jobs which resembles the famous job portal naukri.com. The accused is a resident of Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
Police have started search for other accomplices who have worked with the accused. Earlier, an accomplice of Shailesh, Rahul Singhania was nabbed from Ghaziabad by the cyber crime sleuths in the case.