Md Joynal Abedin Khan :Syndicates are active to cheat job seekers in the name of giving lucrative jobs in the government and the non-government offices and institutions across the country.At least 500 cheat have formed syndicates for the purpose and by this time earned a very good amount of money, intelligence sources said. Meanwhile, about 150 members of different gangs have been arrested for allegedly cheating people for taking money luring them of jobs in a reputed company, they claimed.The syndicates maintain strong link with some unscrupulous employees of various government and private offices and use their addresses apart from their own offices, they said, The gang-members generally use unemployed youths in materialising their evil plans and give jobs advertisement in daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines. Besides, the cheats use temporary and well-decorated offices to deceive the job-seekers first by earning the confidence of their so called target clients. They also use own diary, writing pad and calendars in the name of their fake companies. Most of their offices are situated in the city’s Paltan, Fakirapool, Shantinagar, Sutrapur, Sayedabad, Bashabo, Malibagh, Gulshan, Badda, Mogbazar, Mohammadpur, Mirpur and Hazaribagh, detective sources said. One Mohammad Monir, said, “One day I saw a street advertisement, written: Job opportunity! Job opportunity! Job opportunity! It was mentioned that the applicant would not be required to pay any advance money for job. Only contact with us over the cell phone.” “I dialed a given phone number received by a teenaged-girl. She asked me to contact their boss at Mohakhali office. When I met him, he offered me a so-called lucrative job and demanded Tk 5,000 for training purpose. I paid it. The following day, the office called me and said that my job was confirmed and asked me to report for duty within two days or my joining letter would be cancelled. At that time they took an additional amount of Tk 10,000 for administrative purpose. The next day I went to their office and found none in the given address. Even they fled from the Mohakhali office on the date and found the phone number inactive. I met about 30 victims there,” he said. In the latest development, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have detained 14 members of an ‘organised gang’ of fraudsters who fleeced money from job-seekers, giving false assurance.They were nabbed during raids in Mohakhali DOHS, Baridhara and Adabor areas on Sunday night, RAB-4 Company Commander Md Abu Sayeed Khan said.The RAB official said that members of this fraud gang were duping job-seekers by giving them fake appointment letters after publishingg fake job advertisement in different newspapers.He said members of the gang used to rent offices in different areas of the city for one or two months and take fake interviews of job-seekers, and then changed contact numbers and moved to other areas after collecting the money by conning job-seekers.On April 29, RAB in different drives, arrested six former members of army, police and BGB from different parts in the capital on charge of cheating people, said RAB Legal and Media Wing assistant director Mizanur Rahman.The arrested were accused of swindling Tk 39,000 from 13 job seekers in the name of giving them jobs, he added.Earlier, a fake gang published a circular in the weekly ‘New Chakury Barta’ to appoint some officials under Directorate of Forestry and tried to earn huge money. The posts were Bit Officer, FG, BM, Guard and demanded Tk 500 for each post thru a bKash number.Following information, Forest Ranger Mohammad Ali filed a general diary (GD) with Sher-e-Banglanagar Police station on April 27.Menawhile, Chawkbazar police arrested three fake community policemen in the capital’s Islambagh and Siddhirganj areas on September 02, 2015. They were identified as Md Jahangir Alam, MA Kuddus Sheikh and Sohel Rana, said Mofiz Uddin Ahmed, Deputy Commissioner of Lalbagh division police. In primary interrogation, the detainees confessed that they took huge amount of money from around 15,000 people across the country making fake promises of giving jobs in police department, the police official said.Besides, RAB arrested six persons for taking money from people by deception in the city on July 29 last year, said Lt Col Tuhin Mohammad Masud, commanding officer of RAB-1.The RAB official said, they would first hire a well-decorated office and published employment advertisements on newspapers. When people responded to the ad and sent in applications, they would invite them for an interview, offer them a job and ask them to give a security deposit.On one such stint, they opened an office named Rexton Electra Industries Limited on the ninth floor of Delta Dalia Tower at Kemal Atartuk Avenue. They published a job circular in newspaper on January 19.Seeing the circular, one of their victims named Ashraful Haque responded to and was invited to attend an interview, where accused Nazmul Hasan introduced himself as MN Hasan, Managing Director of Rexton, and offered Ashraf the post of a director. “Along with the appointment, Ashraf was also asked to deposit Tk 1.2 lakh as security,” he said.After conning a number of people, they collected Tk70-80 lakh and shut down the office in February.
