The Delhi police seized mobile phones, laptops, SIM cards and registers containing job-seeker data during the raid.
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From a small room in a commercial building in Noida Sector 62, three women posing as HR executives at an airline company spent their days calling young jobseekers and offering them roles at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Except, the airline did not exist. Neither did the aviation institute they claimed candidates had to enrol in before joining.
The telecallers, undergraduates aged between 20 and 25, were arrested last week, along with the alleged mastermind and two other accomplices, for duping job aspirants from Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana and Punjab, the Delhi police said. Ten victims have been identified so far, said an officer, adding that the number may be a fraction of those cheated, with many victims deciding not to report the crime.
The fraud is believed to have lasted four to five months, during which the accused collected between ₹7,000 and ₹10,000 from each victim as “registration” or “admission fee”, the police said.
