27K job seekers duped on fake govt website

new delhi — The Delhi Police Cyber Cell has busted a gang operating from Hisar, Haryana, which created a fake government website of a fictitious entity — Swasthya Avm Jan Kalyan Sansthan (SAJKS), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to dupe job seekers.

The gang defrauded over 27,000 job seekers in the name of job registration and siphoned off over Rs10.90 million.

Five persons are arrested including the mastermind, who also runs an Online Examination Centre outsourced for conducting government recruitment tests.

Over 13,000 fake jobs were offered on this fake site www.sajks.org and www.sajks.com. The fake websites were so convincing that even mainstream media reported the news of 13,000 job openings.

This led to even more persons falling prey to the fraud. The victims were prompted to submit their bio-data with the prescribed fee.

“The mastermind misused data of job aspirants appearing at his Online Examination Centre for various government recruitment tests. The personal details of candidates appearing at the Examination Centre were used to send targeted messages of job offers in Swasthya Avm Jan Kalyan Sansthan (SAJKS), under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to the gullible victims,” said Anyesh Roy, DCP Cyber Cell.

Investigating a cheating case, it was revealed that the website targeted thousands of gullible job seekers and the gang members are siphoning out the money from ATMs in Hisar. —