A furtively operated job fraud in the name of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) using fake official email addresses and instant messaging groups has duped over 500 youths from northern Kerala districts. Some of the victims, who approached the police, say that a majority of the applicants have lost between ₹50,000 and ₹3,00,000 in various phases in their attempts to secure a permanent government job.
The complainants in their petition said that fraudsters created fake email address of the RRB to communicate with job aspirants and win their trust. Besides, the name and designation of the chairman of the Southern Railways were misused to endorse fake communications.
“The trickery began with a work-from-home job opportunity in the field of data entry. Attractive payment was given to the ‘recruited’ persons in the first couple of months and it won the trust of the ‘employees’. There were fake WhatsApp groups in the name of the Railways to coordinate the work,” said one of the complainants.
