With the arrest of 13 people, the Delhi Police on Friday busted a fake call centre in South Delhi that was allegedly involved in duping at least 300 unemployed men and women on the pretext of finding them a job.
According to Atul Kumar Thakur, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South district, the police team received specific inputs about a fake call being operated at Raju Park on Devli Road following which the police team conducted a raid on Thursday from where 13 employees including the manager was arrested for duping people on the assurance of getting them jobs.
“Preliminary investigation has revealed the accused used to call their targets through the numbers taken from websites to confirm if they still needed a job.
The accused would then inform them about various fake vacancies in banks, airlines, Public Sector Undertakings and other sectors, and offer them jobs by inviting applications,” said the DCP.
“They would ask for processing charges of Rs 2,000 per candidate. When they agreed to pay the amount, they would send them bank account details via SMS and never respond to them later once the money was transferred into their account,” said the DCP.
The police have recovered 19 mobile phones, 14 registers and copies containing the details of applicants and their payments and further investigation is underway.
The call centre in Neb Sarai's Devli area had been operating for the past three months, police said, adding that among those arrested are its manager and some female employees.Police said the accused scouted various job portals to collect details of their prospective targets, and approached them by claiming to be from different placement agencies.