Six Arrested in Noida for Duping Jobseekers with Fake Airline Offers
Delhi Police have arrested six people, including three women telecallers and the alleged mastermind, for running a fake airline job scam from Noida Sector 62 and Gaur City Centre Mall. The accused allegedly duped job aspirants from Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, and Punjab by offering non-existent roles at Indira Gandhi International Airport.
The telecallers, undergraduates aged between 20 and 25, posed as HR executives from a commercial setup in Noida Sector 62. They contacted jobseekers offering roles at a fictitious airline called "Bretish Airways" and claimed that candidates were required to enrol in a diploma at a non-existent institute named "Future Wings Learning Institute" before joining.
According to police, the operation ran for four to five months. The accused collected between ₹7,000 and ₹10,000 from each victim under the pretext of registration and admission fees. Ten victims have been formally identified so far, though police suspect the actual number of cheated candidates could be higher.
The racket was uncovered after a resident of Mantola in Paharganj, Vikas Kumar, responded to an Instagram advertisement on June 10. After submitting his details, a woman identifying herself as Karishma collected his PAN, Aadhaar, marksheets, and resume over WhatsApp. She instructed him to pay ₹7,000 via UPI for the mandatory aviation diploma. Upon making the payment, he received a purported admission slip, no-objection certificate, and job offer, after which the caller stopped responding.
Investigators tracked the mobile number, UPI transactions, and website registration details directly to the accused. The trail led Delhi Police to a rented office at Gaur City Centre Mall in Noida, where the mastermind Sandeep Kumar, 23, and his associate Akhil Kumar, 27, were arrested on August 18.
Police subsequently arrested Rakesh Kumar, 47, a website developer who designed and hosted the fake websites, along with telecallers Shweta, Sapna, and Sakshi. Officers seized two laptops, eight mobile phones, eight SIM cards registered in the telecallers' names, and two registers containing data on jobseekers.
