Mastermind of online job fraud arrested at Mumbai airport

“On Tuesday, the police team boarded the same flight that Agarwal took, keeping an eye on him for the whole duration of the flight and nabbed him when the flight landed,” said a police officer.

Explaining the modus operandi of the racket run by Agarwal, police said the gang members would post messages on Instagram about jobs at Amazon. On clicking the ads, the user would receive a message: “Hi! We are the Amazon India Multinational Corporation.

Are you here to apply for online part-time jobs?” Police said members of the gang would then talk to their victims, make them share their personal and banking details on an online form, and also added them to a Telegram group. Later, under the pretext of completing online tasks, members would make victims buy products or deposit money in certain bank accounts in return of hefty commissions. Later, the victims realised they had been duped.

Police have seized 30 mobile phones, 72 SIM cards, 45 debit and credit cards, 19 passbooks, 17 PAN cards, and 16 Aadhaar cards from the three gang members.

“Agarwal, the mastermind, arranged SIM cards, phones and bank accounts. We are in the process of ascertaining how much money they made from this racket,” said Deepak Chavan, senior inspector of Matunga police station.