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Job fraud: Two Chandigarh men duped
Two men from Ram Darbar, Chandigarh, fell prey to jab fraud; a man was stated that he met a person through Facebook and paid him ₹70,000 for a job in SBI
Two men from Ram Darbar, Chandigarh, were duped on the pretext of being provided jobs
In the first case, Narinder Singh stated in his complaint that he met a person through Facebook and between August 13 and August 18, paid ₹70,000 to get a job in State Bank of India. Later, he realised that he had been duped and filed a complaint.
Krishan Mohan Jha of Ram Darbar was also duped of ₹9,968 by an unknown caller who had sent him a link to provide him a job at Wipro on July 7 this year.
Cheating cases were registered in both incidents. No arrests have been made yet.
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