A four-member job fraud gang, including three Nigerians and a woman from Nagaland, was arrested by the Cyberabad Cyber Crime police in Hyderabad on Saturday, October 12.
Addressing the media, Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar said the four were cheating several job aspirants after promising them jobs abroad.
The accused persons are D. Mohammed alias Nwosu Donald, 35, Musa Halimat, 29, Ndour Alioune alias Benedict Enabulele, 32 and Holito Zhimomi, 35.Two other suspects identified as Petosile Ugha and Samson William are currently on the run.
Below is the full statement issued by the Police Commissioner:
On 29.08.2019, the police received a complaint from one Mr V.Rajan Babu R/o.Kukatpally, Hyderabad in which he stated that he is working in Pattnaik Steels and Alloys Ltd, Odisha as C.E.O since 3 years.
He is in the habit of changing his job from one organization to another for better position and high salary. He being Power Engineer, he is following said practice since 2002 after taking voluntary retirement from the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
He is regularly updating his resume in major national and international job portals as he has vast experience of working in 7 counties earlier. In the month of Jan, 2019, he received a phone call in the name of one Mr Heather Williams, C.E.O and Business Development Officer of “Roggal Hotel and Apartments Las Angles, California” and informed him that his resume has been shortlisted for Roggal Hotel and Apartments as Chief Manager and asked him to attend interview.
On 20th Feb, 2019 he received a call in the name of Miss Heather Williams, who claims to be the wife of Mr Williams of Roggal Hotel and Apartments informing him that she visited India from Boston International Airport to Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi and staying at British Consulate, New Delhi to interview him and later informed him that he got selected after taking telephonic interview.
After which, the complainant received a call from Mobile No.8448740868 where she introduced herself as Ms Akita Kumari from New Delhi and informed him that Miss Heather Williams a carried DD of US $ 1,75,000 towards his 12 months salary and asked to pay of Rs.55,000/- initially for release of DD carried by Miss Heather Williams, on believing her words complainant paid the Rs.55,000/-.
Again the said Ms Akita Kumari called the complainant and asked to pay Rs.2,55,000/- for release of DD amount and provided the bank account numbers.
After which Miss Heather Williams also forced him to pay an amount of Rs.10,00,000/- for release of DD. After 4 days, again Ms Akita Kumari called him and asked to pay an amount of Rs.8,65,000/.
After which one person by name Mr Robert who claims to be Public Relations Officer of British Consulate, New Delhi contacted him on WhatsApp (+447482868564) and convinced him that the DD $ of 1,75,000/- will be given to him within one week, if he pay the amount demanded by Ms Akita Kumari.
Accordingly the complaint paid an amount of Rs.47 Lakhs in total into the bank accounts given to him by Mr Akita Kumari.
Basing on the above complaint a case is registered at Cyber Crime Police Station, Cyberabad and investigated into.
