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Man ends up losing over Rs 16 lakh to recruitment cheats

Imagine being promised a job in Switzerland with a highly remunerate+ive pay packet and a good life with the family. Sounds too good to be true but this happened, literally.

Hyderabad: Imagine being promised a job in Switzerland with a highly remunerate+ive pay packet and a good life with the family. Sounds too good to be true but this happened, literally.

A person who was offered the lucrative position was to realise too late in the day that he was being conned after he shelled out nearly Rs 16 lakh towards security deposit, work visa, airline tickets, health insurance and car registration security deposit.

Unable to bear any longer, the victim, a 52-year-old, approached the Cyberabad police.

The victim was searching online portals for a job and uploaded his resume. He received a call for a person introducing himself Mayank Rana, who claimed to represent a company that was a client of a recruitment platform.

Rana offered the victim a position as quality wing head at a company in Switzerland. In fact, the scammer set up a fake interview and an HR round.

After assuring him that was qualified for the post, they started demanding money towards various charges, including e-visa security amount for his wife and son. In a span of one month, the complainant transferred a whopping Rs 16,51,346 across 50 transactions.

When he stopped getting any response from Rana, he realised that he was duped and filed a complaint with the Cyberabad cybercrime police.


( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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