Fake employment placement rackets
There have been many cases where a student or a person looking for a job
has been deceived by offenders who claim to provide placement or jobs to
them and later on run away with the money they have taken as an advance
to provide them with employment. Section 66D of the Information
Technology Act, 2000 states the penalties to be imposed on a person for
cheating on another person through personation using computer resources.
For example, Ajay Kolla, the CEO of Wisdom Jobs was arrested along with 13
other staffs in January, 2019 on the charge of false recruitment. Wisdom Jobs
was an award-winning recruitment firm which was established in the year
2009. Since then, Ajay Kolla had duped around 1.04 people, earning nearly
70 crore rupees out of fake placement promises as reported by the Economic
Times.