The country has seen so many positive changes in all these years, the new government has availed many schemes for the skill development and career opportunities yet lots of young graduates are struggling to get proper jobs. Skilled and well-educated job seekers don’t get the right opportunity which has led many cases of people suffering from anxiety and depression sometimes resulting in suicides.
There have been many episodes by known Hindi Journalist Ravish Kumar regarding the struggle of youths getting government jobs which rose protests all over the country. The journalist tried to make a difference but his effort wasn’t good enough to impress the government to avail jobs and right the wrong.
The Lack of jobs have opened portals for fraud and scam where a job seeker is promised a permanent job and he/she is asked for money which is never refunded and then they vanish. It hasn’t been many days since the young Sagar Thakur also known as “Shaggy” the alleged mastermind behind the 1900 crore call center Scam was arrested in Thane.
I am going to tell a new scam which has just started doing rounds. A firm is targeting youth of India through Social Media where they are offering the unbelievable job. I read somewhere that a guy from India wrote a letter to Dream cruise line (USA) that he has become the victim of a fraud and lost $400 (around 27,000 in Indian Currency) in it. I thought of digging deep and started searching fraudster. A guy named Carlos Oliveira (which also happen to be a fictional character from the Movie and comic Resident Evil) had posted a cruise job in a Facebook Group.
I checked his Facebook Profile, the fraudster had made sure that his Facebook profile look authentic by posting some pictures of cruises and its crews. Carlos Oliveira had given a WhatsApp number to contact him for the job in his Facebook post. I saved the number started chatting to him on WhatsApp regarding the job. He gave me a too good offer to believe. He was offering $5000 USD per month, $400USD pocket money every week, Paid Airfares, Transportation, Quality family housing accommodation, free medical care, work permits, visa, Life insurance and other benefits for a language interpreter job profile.
I asked him many questions regarding the authenticity of him, I asked him why he isn’t using the official mail id? His answers were scripted pitch which he used thrice for three different questions which were asked in different ways having the same quest. He told me that he is the Hiring Manager and belongs to a very reputed company and gave me the link of some random cruise website. When I asked some questions whose answers were not scripted he stopped messaging. I had to know more so, I acted that I was convinced for the job so I messaged him asking the joining formalities, then came the real fraud.
Carlos messaged that the company will pay for my work permits and visa but I will have to pay the one-time registration fee as per the employment law of USA. He asked me for $400 USD for the registration purpose and assured me that the offer letter will reach within few days.
The fraudster had ill grammar and didn’t know how to talk formally whenever he tried to message anything else than the scripted pitch. I was astonished that how could I get this much good offer without any interview.
This is how these people are targeting the youths. I don’t how many people have lost their money because of it but it appears to be a dangerous fraud. Fraud for offering job in India isn’t new, it has been happening for few years but the medium has changed. I have seen many posts having the same advertisement regarding the cruise job on different groups with different usernames. Be aware of these fraudsters and don’t become the victim of their badass method.
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