Job & fake Pay-Tm fraudsters racket busted, five held

Hyderabad: On a tip-off today, City Task Force personnel apprehended a gang of fraudsters, who were posing as job providers in various multi-national companies and cheated some 70 youths and collected an amount of Rs 50 lakh from unemployed youth promising to provide jobs and issued fake offers and joining letters, emails. Some of the gang members have done shopping in various shopping centres of Hyderabad and used to pay the amount with fake Prank Pay-TM and cheated the businessmen. The police seized fake offer letters of Wipro, Amazon, Cognizant and IBM companies, (10) Cell Phones, cash of Rs.59,000, one Hero Honda Passion Pro Motor Cycle, Heritage Groceries items and gold ornament about 10 gram.

The accused were identified as Mohammed Ali alias Ali, 28, free lancer consultant, residing at Plot No.44, Gultan Shah Nagar, Jahanumana; Mohd Firdouse alias Atif, 24, unemployed residing at H.No.9-5-35/B, Ibrahim Bagh, near Vasavi Engineering College, Golconda; Syed Sadeq alias Sadeq, 38, Data Entry office MBT Business solution, residing at H.No 2-3-647/A, New Premnagar, Amberpet; Reshma with several aliases, 25, Job Consultant of Flat No.507, 5th Floor, Pardagate, King Kothi; Naresh Kumar Bhandari, 34, Consultant r/o H.No.3-3-108/137, 2nd Floor, New Friends Colony, Phase-II, Attapur.

However, Mohd Amaan Ahmed alias Amaan, a student of Vijaynagar Colony and Syed Afroze Ali, 27, of Vijaynagar Colony, are absconding. (NSS)