Scams are reigning everywhere, we all hear the news of duping online e-commerce companies! Surely you have come across people who have posted fake advertisements on OLX and try to shell out money. But today, it’s far different from everything and has crossed all lines. This time the attempt has been made by an intelligent law student from the Delhi University.
Technology has become so advanced that it has become easier nowadays to fake things and prepare clone websites and make every way possible to earn easy money. Well, he is a 27-year-old law student named Sumit Kumar who did so in order to earn crores of money just in a month.
He has created a fake website, making an appearance of a government that looked genuine and posted several jobs on it. He has duped more than 4000 applicants of Rs. 20 lakhs just in 2 days! Well, the website made by him was very similar to WMCD’s (Women and Child Development) and had the same logo.
Sumit has posted more than 6000 vacancies on it for faculty openings and charged fees from the applicants. For most of the vacancies, the fee was high till Rs 800. Even he played great tricks by reducing the fee for SC and ST so that no one has the doubt regarding the authenticity of the site.
Sumit Kumar has chosen the url wcdo.org.in, while the url of the original site is wcd.nic.in. The undersecretary in the ministry of women and child development had registered a complaint, after which Delhi police has arrested Sumit.
DCP BK Singh said, “After registering a case at Parliament Street police station, the investigators took a closer look at the website to realize it was registered as an NGO, “Women and Child Development Organisation”. The name was allegedly intended to mislead people into believing it had something to do with the ministry. The fee payments were too deposited to an ICICI account. We took the details of the account holder from the bank and nabbed the suspect. Initially, he tried to mislead us, but admitted on interrogation.”
Sumit Kumar has confessed that this was done with the intention of earning money. Currently, the police officials are searching for another 3 people, 2 others have helped him in this scam!
