Hundreds of job seekers are being cheated by fake recruiting agencies amid the ongoing drive of the law enforcing agencies in the city and several districts, intelligence agencies sources said.
The fake recruiters normally circulate advertisements by offering prestigious posts, lucrative salaries and other financial and residential facilities through wall writing, postering, hand billing, mobile messaging and facebook, they said.
They sometimes lure the job seekers by circulating bogus advertisements by underground print media and online portals, according to them.
Around one thousand fake recruitment agencies are active in the city and some other districts by dodging the law enforcers, they further said.
In the meantime, more than two hundred fraud gang members have been arrested in separate drives of the law enforcers, but most of them securing bails again engaged in the swindling activities, they added.
If any victim tries to publish or inform the swindling act to the law enforcers then he or she faces rape, assault and crime and sedition charges, they said quoting victims.
September 30 last year, Rapid Action Battalion detained six members of a gang from the capital’s Badda on charge of cheating many people and took at least Tk 1 crore promising high-salary jobs and shares of a fictitious company.
The gang rented a well-decorated commercial space in Banani, published lucrative ads, took security deposits from the victims and then vanished within months, said an official of RAB seeking unanimous.
They then opened another office in Badda under a different name and published similar advertisements.
A former Deputy Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension narrated how he lost over half of his retirement benefits.
Preferring anonymity, he said, having retired, he joined Rexton Electra Industries as an employee in January last year depositing Tk 80,000 as security money.
“Later they took Tk 43 lakh from me in phases offering me a car at a discount and shares,” he said, adding that he found the office locked after around one month.
RAB claimed that before closing the Banani office in March, the gang collected a hand some amount deceiving people, including one Abul Khayer Chowdhury who lost Tk five lakh and Rezaul Karim who lost Tk three lakh.
Masud said that the gang had already swindled around Tk 35 lakh from people using the Badda office.
On October 5, 2017, detectives claimed arrest of five members of a fraud gang, who were involved in forgery with government seals and police clearance certificates, said Detective Branch Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten.
A total of 577 fake seals of ministries and the police force, and 1,450 fake forms and police clearance certificates were seized from the group during the drive.
On August 22, 2016, members of Rapid Action Battalion have detained 10 frauds of a gang of fake jobs providers from the capital’s Uttara. A good number of victims were also rescued from the captivity of the detainees.
