Hyderabad Cyber Crime police arrest five in part-time job fraud case through Naukri.com

Hyderabad: Sleuths of Cyber Crime Police, Hyderabad arrested five accused persons for allegedly defrauding jobseekers out of many lakhs by offering them part-time, task-based positions with high pay.

The arrested persons were identified as Paladugula Devakrupa, VV Shiva Shankar, Betham Balaraju, Mantri N S Prajwal Reddy and C Vijay Sagar, who cheated the victim by inducing them in the guise of part-time task-based job through Naukri.com by offering huge returns with forged electronic documents.

The police seized six mobile phones, a cash counting machine, eleven passbooks, six cheque books and three debit cards from the possession of the accused.

Facts of the Case:

Deputy Commissioner of Police Cybercrime unit (Hyderabad) Dara Kavitha said that on January 11, the victim filed a complaint stating that a group of fraudsters with the help of several bank accounts, as per their well-orchestrated plan, impersonated themselves as organizers of reputed companies with lucrative returns on the investments, cheated him to a tune of Rs1,93,760.

Modus Operandi

The DCP said that the accused colluded with each other and hatched a plan to earn easy money on the pretext of offering high returns through part-time jobs. The fraudsters contacted the victim through phone call and introduced themselves as officials from Naukri.com and offered part-time jobs via tasks to give writing reviews for hotels, and they would pay money after completion of tasks after making the payment to the victim.

Elaborating further, Kavitha said that the accused also introduced a concept called "Ladder," claiming a compliant account had been "frozen" due to incorrect actions, and they pressured the complainant to pay further amounts to "unfreeze" the funds, leading him to a loss of Rs 1,93,760 by providing bank accounts.