Techies fall prey to job scam

16th September, 2008

CHENNAI: At least 20 software engineers from various districts in the state on Monday met city police commissioner R Sekar and lodged a complaint against some persons who had cheated them after promising jobs with global IT giant IBM.

Most of the victims are untrained engineers who were attracted by the attractive pamphlets printed by the fraudsters. One of the victims, C Magesh, a native of Namakkal, was approached by Saravana Karthikeyan during an interview at a software company. Karthikeyan promised to get Magesh a job at IBM’s global services in Chennai.

“He asked me to come to Chennai and meet a person at Rahat Plaza in Vadapalani. There I met a person who behaved as if he had close contacts with senior IBM officials. As per his instructions, I deposited Rs 49,000 in cash in an ICICI account in the name of Rohini Premkumar at Nanganallur . Similarly, my brother Karthik also deposited cash in the same account. I did not get any response from them for a while. When I contacted them, they claimed that the company’s human resource department had already sent me an offer letter from their mail address…..

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Source: The Times of India