Hyderabad, July 28: Two fraudsters, who duped unemployed youth by promising jobs in reputed IT companies through backdoor entry, were nabbed on Monday. The accused collected more than Rs 10 lakh from job seekers.
Task Force sleuths nabbed the duo, Arshad Naveed of Mahaboobnagar and P Karthik Laxmikanth of Safilguda, for cheating job aspirants.
Task Force DCP V B Kamalasan Reddy said that Arshad Naveed, a graduate, earlier worked in the MaFoi Management Consultancy at Himayathnagar but was removed after a year for failing to reach targets.
While Naveed was working in the company, a BTech dropout, Laxmikanth, approached him for a job in a call centre and subsequently they became friends.
Naveed and Laxmikanth planned ways to earn easy money and decided to cheat unemployed youth on the pretext of providing jobs in reputed IT companies.
“The duo posted false details of jobs available in reputed IT companies in social websites such as Orkut and others and several unemployed youngsters approached them on their mobile phones,” the DCP said.
Naveed and Laxmikanth used to call the aspirants to Ginger Court Hotel at Madhapur and convince them that they had influence in reputed IT companies in Madhapur and that they could place them in those companies, Kamalasan Reddy said.
After collecting Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh, the duo used to create fake offer letters and send them to the aspirants through e-mail. “When the aspirants approached the IT companies with the fake letters, they were turned down by the firms after which they approached us,” Kamalasan Reddy said. The accused used to give false phone numbers and addresses to dupe the aspirants.
–Agencies–