Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Saturday busted an interstate job fraud racket that was using bank accounts of gullible people by paying them some paltry amount, and duping scores of job aspirants.
The police arrested Rajesh Samantaray, 38, of New Rajeev Colony area in Haryana, Raj Sinha, 28, Ashok Nagar area in East Delhi and Sandeep Kumar Bai, 39, of Pattamundai area in Kendrapara in this connection.
Earlier, a case (68/23) was registered on a complaint lodged by victim Shiba Shankar Reddy.
According to police, Rajesh came in contact with the victims through one of his relatives residing in Khurda in November 2022. He told the victims that he is running an NGO in which poor people are working. Rajesh convinced them to give him their bank accounts which would be used for transferring wages to the workers. He promised to pay Rs1,500 to each of the account holders.
Lured by the offer, the victims gave their account details to the fraudsters who initially paid the promised amount.
“After some days, Shiba Shankar visited the bank branch and found that his account has been marked debit freeze by cyber police stations from various states as illegal transactions were made through his account online,” said a senior police official.
Later, the fraudsters came to Bhubaneswar and opened a fake consultancy firm at Sundarpada and started cheating aspirants on the pretext of providing jobs in reputed companies.
“Sandeep was taking interviews of job seekers, Rajesh was providing hired accounts and preactivated SIMs from the locality for the purpose of receiving fraudulent money from the victims and Raj was sending job-related fake advertisements to job seekers and finalized a deal of Rs40,000 from each candidate as advance,” the cop added.
Gyan Ranjan Mohapatra, OP