KOLKATA TECHIE HELD FOR FRAUD
A 30-year-old techie from Kolkata who duped an engineering graduate from LB Nagar promising a job in Zensar Technologies and collected `1.5 lakh after sending a fake offer letter was nabbed by Rachakonda cyber crime police on Friday.
Sudershan Swain, hailing from Odisha, used the money he extorted from the victim for his hair transplant surgery. After checking bank accounts to which the amounts were transferred, police found that a debit card of one account was used for making payment at a hair transplant clinic in Kolkata and traced Sudershan.
Police said that Edukondalu, an engineering graduate, saw an advertisement on Quikr.com about jobs in reputed IT firms. When he contacted the mobile number in the ad a person identifying as Tapan asked to send him his resume and deposit `50,000 for receiving the call letter.
A few days later, a person called him identifying himself as the HR manager of Zensar Technologies and conducted a telephonic interview. Two days later the victim received a call from the same person who asked him to deposit `1 lakh to receive the offer letter.
The victim refused to deposit the amount and asked them to send the offer letter first. After that he received an offer letter on his mail from narendergoudhr@zensar.com.
“Since the email had Zensar extension, the victim believed it to be true and deposited `1 lakh in an account in SBI’s Naugaon Branch in Odisha,” police commissioner Mahesh Bhagawat said. Police found that the fraudsters sent spoofed emails to the victim. The accused used accounts in Maharashtra and Odisha to transfer the amounts.