Three held, for running fake call center

New Delhi, May 06: The Delhi police have busted a fake job racket containing 3 members, who were run a fake call center at Laxmi Nagar area here on Friday.

While coming to details, The accused were Abhimanyu(24), Om Vasudev Sharma(27), and Ravi Kashyap(24) from Agra, Firozabad, and Noida respectively.Sharma earlier worked with a Noida-based call center.

Police said the incident came to light on March 6 after a victim, Rachna, filed a complaint with the Crime Branch of Delhi Police against the online job racket, as she was duped of Rs 2,300.

Rachna, who is a resident of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, was called by the accused on February 18, after she submitted her job application on Monster.com.

"After she deposited the registration fee Rs 2,300, the accused asked her to deposit Rs 600 more as interview fee. The victim, suspecting to have been trapped in a fake job racket, canceled the entire process and sought her money back. She was told that she would get the refund after two months," said Deputy Commissioner of Police G. Ramgopal Naik.

"The accused told police that they have duped job aspirants of Rs 30 lakh so far in the last four months. They purchased the data of unemployed youths from Monster.com and contacted them from the call center," Naik added.