Pharma student promised job, duped of Rs 10,000

A 24-year woman student pursuing her masters in pharmacy from Pune based college has been duped by unidentified suspects on the pretext of getting her job with a leading pharmaceutical company. The woman was contacted over her email address and was made to deposit Rs 10, 000 in a bank account with a nationalised bank for getting the job.

Anil Chintaman Rajurkar (55) a resident of Mehernagar, Garkheda has complained to the Cidco police station that his daughter Anushri (24) is doing M Pharm in a Pune college and received an e-mail informing her about her selection in Ranbaxy Laboratories New Delhi and asked her to deposit the money in Punjab National Bank account.

On her request he deposited the amount in the given account of the bank. Anushri kept waiting for response for days together but in vain.

Rajurkar stated that whenever she contacted the suspects to inquire about the job they promised, they would enquire whether she has deposited the money and even started seeking UTR number whenever she approached them for job. On realizing the cheating Rajurkar lodged a complaint.

Taking a note of the complaint lodged, the city police have registered a case of cheating against unidentified suspects. Sources said that the police have shot a notice to the bank authorities to furnish details of the account that was allegedly used to dupe the student and also to seize the account.

Cybercrime branch sleuths maintained that over 90 per cent victims in the cases of telephishing are educated youths, who due to their carelessness readily end up in the traps laid by the suspects.

Cybercrime branch API Rahul Khatavkar said, In a majority of the cases, the suspect cheats collect data of their targets from social networking sites. In this case, we suspect that the M Pharm student was sent a letter offering her job with a leading pharma company clearly indicates the MOB used by the suspects.

The officer said that it is high time that the users try and ensure that their personal information available on social networking sites is not accessible to unwanted characters.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Pharma-student-promised-job-duped-of-Rs-10000/articleshow/51816270.cms