Fake consultancy with Intelli appointment letter.

A job seeker was duped by a group of cheats who gave her a fake offer letter of an IT major and collected Rs 1.5 lakh from her. The three cheats, including a woman were arrested by Crime Investigation Department sleuths.

The victim had applied for the post of associate software engineer with Intelli Group after she received an email from the company’s email ID in 2009. Responding to her application, introducing themselves as Intelli Groups HR executives, Veena and R Kiran Kumar conducted an interview on phone and also sent an appointment letter to her email account on November 11, 2009.

They then demanded Rs.1.5 Lakh to be paid through money transfer to account number 769010013313 of ING Vysya Bank,Gandhi Nagar branch as consultation fee. After the payment was done, the woman was instructed to report at Intelli Group’s office at Software Units Layout in Madhapur on January 4, 2010. But when she went there, the staff told her that the appointment was not in their records.

The Intelli staff were astonished to see the appointment letter typed on their letter head, but after checking their records confirmed that they did not issue the letter, SP,CID,(Cyber Crime cell) B Sumathi said.

After a detailed probe, the CID investigators identified the accused as MCA graduate K Venugopal alias Kiran Kumar of Meerpet in Saroornagar who used to run Skill Bank job consultancy in Ongole, his wife Anusha, Veena of Sky GraphConsultancy, Tarnaka, Riyaz of Nissy Concepts, Tarnaka,and  Gangadhar, a sales executive with ING Vysya Bank.

Venugopal had formed a team with the others and collected resumes of job seekers and sent fake offer letters and collected amounts up to Rs. 1.5 lakh from several. Bank sales executive Gangadhar helped them open five bank accounts under various names where the job seekers used to deposit the money. The accused were arrested on Tuesday and remanded in judicial custody.