Hyderabad: The arrest of three men by the Cyberabad cyber crime team for allegedly issuing a fake appointment letter of Capgemini and swindling Rs 1.5 lakh from an unemployed woman has unveiled a racket in corporate requirement.
Racketeers post opportunities on Websites like quikr.com and olx.in promising jobs in top companies through the backdoor. If somebody responds they conduct fake telephonic interviews, and once the person makes payment, they issue fake appointment letters. When the candidate approaches the company he realises that he has been cheated.
Hundreds fall prey to such fake online advertisements. The team that was arrested on Friday was running this racket from Mumbai and Bengaluru. A. Sushmaja, a resident of Manikonda paid Rs1.5 lakh to racketeers who had advertised a job. The racketeers conducted a telephone interview and issued the offer letter of Capgemini through the site www.emkei.cz. How-ever, when she approached the company the fraud was exposed.
The modus operandi of the racketeers is entirely online and telephonic. There is no one-to-one interaction between the recruiter and the candidate. But most companies have a designated interview pattern which includes HR round, group discussion, telephonic interview, aptitude test and a final interview with the department head. The HR departments of top companies said that recruitments are done only by the company and that jobs are posted only on the company’s official Website.
It is mostly ineligible candidates who do not have the qualifications prescribed by the companies, or those who could not get through company or campus interviews who fall prey to such offers believing that they can get in through the backdoor. There is also an allegation that HR departments of top companies push candidates who failed in interviews through high profile recommendations and sometimes recruit applicants without interviews.
As fake recruitments to IT companies and other companies have turned into a racket the Cyberabad cyber crime unit has asked unemployed youths to be cautious while responding to fake job offer calls and advertisements on job sites which offer jobs via the backdoor for huge sums of money.
