Pune: Cyber Cell Officials Arrest Four For Running Fake Job Racket

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Pune, 1st December 2022: Cyber Cell officials of Maharashtra’s Mumbai Police have arrested four Africans after a raid at their hideout where they were running a fake job racket. About two lakh email IDs and one lakh mobile phone numbers have been found with the team, through which they would carry out online fraud.

The four accused, including two women, are from Zambia, Uganda, Namibia and Ghana. Officials said that they came to India on student visas, and the visas of three of them had expired.

The police started this investigation when a person lodged a complaint with the cyber cell in BKC, Mumbai, regarding the cybercrime committed against him. The person alleged that in April-July, Rs 26 lakh was looted from him in the name of getting a job in America. Police were able to track down one of the four accused, who was using a WiFi router for internet, and nabbed all the four accused in Pune. All are between the ages of 22 and 32.

An official said that about two lakh email IDs and one lakh mobile phone numbers have been found in the database of the accused, with the help of which they used to cheat people. Apart from this, the police seized 14 mobile phones, four laptops, passports of different countries, three internet routers, 17 cheque books of different banks, 115 SIM cards, 40 fake rubber stamps, and accounts of six different banks. The details have been recovered. An FIR has been registered in the case under IPC sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (conspiracy).