Naukri get Vizag cop notices

Visakhapatnam: The cyber crime police of Visakhapatnam has issued notice to naukri.com and shine.com to explain how fraudsters gain access to the data of those who have used their services to apply for jobs.

Cyber crime Inspector V. Gopinath has asked company representatives to appear in front of him on June 28. The police noticed that people were being cheated only after uploading their bio-data on the portals.

The cyber crime police has earlier issued notices to Google asking its representatives to appear to explain how fake fake information turns up in the search results.

The cyber crime police has received about 30 cases in which unemployed persons were cheated for `50 lakh this year from Vizag. The notice mentioned that after uploading the resume, the applicants are receiving fake job offers and the fraudsters collect a variety of fees before disappearing.

Several cases were registered in the cybercrime police station under Sections 419 (punishment for cheating) and 420 (cheating) and Sections 66 (computer related offences) and 66D (cheating by using computer devices) of the Informa-tion Technology Act.

The notice stated that fraudsters are “somehow accessing” resumes posted by job-seekers on the two portals. “The fraudsters are duping job-seekers by saying that their company’s job opportunity matching with victim’s profile. This is happening only when the job seekers post their resumes on your portal (sic),” it said.

Mr Gopinath said, “We have issued notice to both naukri.com and shine.com. Our personnel will serve the notices at their offices.” He said most of the victims were engineering students.

Pay via DD, not into personal ACs: Cops

Noida in UP and some parts of Bengal have turned out to be hubs from where job frauds are carried out. When the police try to trace the links to the scam operators, the trail ends in these two states.

The police has asked people not to deposit money into the personal accounts of any caller,  even if the fraudster says it is compulsory.

Vizag cyber crime inspector V. Gopinath said that in all the 30 cases the police had registered recently, the victims had deposited money in the private bank accounts of the fraudsters.

He said, “Most of the companies will not ask applicants for money. Even if some companies collect a nominal fee, they may collect it in the company’s name in the form of a demand draft (DD).”

The cybercrime police has noticed that the offer letter have lots of grammatical and spelling mistakes and can be easily identified that they are not from companies.Mr  Gopinath added, “If they get the offer letter from a company, they should find the company website and approach the HR through the contact number mentioned there. Physical verification and speaking with the existing employees will help an applicant know know whether a company is genuine or fake.”