Six arrested for running fake airline job racket; victims from Delhi, neighbouring States
Delhi police have arrested six individuals for operating a fake airline job racket that defrauded jobseekers by promising roles at a non-existent airline. The scammers used social media advertisements and fake documentation to collect registration fees from victims across several Indian states.
Why it matters
The case serves as a warning about the prevalence of employment scams targeting vulnerable jobseekers in the digital age.
From a small room in a commercial building in Noida Sector 62, three women posing as HR executives at an airline company spent their days calling young jobseekers and offering them roles at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Except, the airline did not exist. Neither did the aviation institute they claimed candidates had to enrol in before joining. The telecallers, undergraduates aged between 20 and 25, were arrested last week, along with the alleged mastermind and two other accomplices, for duping job aspirants from Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana and Punjab, the Delhi police said. Ten victims have been identified so far, said an officer, adding that the number may be a fraction of those cheated, with many victims deciding not to report the crime.
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