Lovers cheat unemployed youth promising jobs in MNCs

HYDERABAD: One person was arrested by Cyber Crime wing of

Cyberabad police

on Thursday, for allegedly cheating several unemployed youth to the tune of Rs 1.37 crores, which he had collected by promising them to provide jobs in prominent MNCs.

Cyberabad police said that

Vamshi Krishna

alias

Vamshi Manohar

was arrested for luring the innocent job seekers, with the help of his girl friend Sushmitha. The accused through various means, including by creating fake profile on Facebook, contacted about 40 victims and collected lakhs of rupees from each person, all to the tune of Rs 1.37 crores.

The victim Yamini who is the friend of Sushmitha, the girl friend of Vamshi, was contacted by the accused offering her job through back end. The accused through Sushmitha, lured the victim by convincing that he will help her get job in MNCs like TCS and Google as the accused, claimed that he has clout with higher ups in these companies. The victim paid Rs 1.5 lakhs since Sushmitha is her friend, with a hope to enter the MNC through back end.

During the investigation, police came to know that through Sushmitha and other sources, the accused came in contact with many victims, and duped them. All the accused, paid the money by depositing the money into various bank accounts. The accused has victims spread in various parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from places like Hyderabad, Bheemavaram, Nizamabad, Vizag, Vijayawada, Khammam, Guntur.

"Vamshi Krishna is accustomed to lead a lavish lifestyle, staying in Star Hotels in Mumbai, Pune, Mysore, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad and spent all the ill-gotten gains made from unemployed youth in horse races,’’ Cyberabad police said in a press release.

As of now there are about eight cases registered against the accused in various police stations of Telangana ad AP. In some cases, the accused made victims deposit money in his father’s bank account and the accused using his father’s ATM withdrew the money.

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