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FRAUDULENT JOB WEBSITE CASE
In this case, the CBI was successful in nabbing a person who put up a job website
promising the applicants to give them lucrative jobs in the IT industry in different countries.
In this manner, he collected huge amount of money from unsuspecting citizens promising
to send them abroad. Further he used forged letters from High Commissions to convince
the unsuspecting citizens and for his fraudulent endeavors.
SURFACETRANSPORTOFINDIA.COM CASE
In June2001 the Delhi police booked a Delhi based software company for projecting its
website as the official website of a Union Government Ministry. The company had
allegedly misused the official emblem on its site www.surfacetransportofindia.com. Apart
from misusing the emblem, the software company collected the money from unsuspecting
netizens on the pretext of hiring them for opening traffic control centers through the
country. The company started allegedly publishing its plans to open cyber booths
throughout the country. It collected Rs.7,500 from individuals for recruiting them as district
managers, by masquerading as a Government agency on the Internet and in the first six
weeks of its operations, collected Rs. 58 lakhs from netizens.
