IBM office misused in con
By Ria Sharma

By now most Indians think they have heard of every job scam. Simple scams involve asking job candidates to send a small ‘service fee’ with their applications, others involve forcing people to pay for their training before being rejected, and some IT/BPO officials even take a cut from the HR Agencies that send them candidates. But is seems that con men and women are only limited by their imagination.

Now Bangalore Mirror is reporting that con artists have even managed to rope in full-time employees of companies like IBM to help scam job seekers

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Like any number of techies suffering a recession-induced salary cut or facing imminent retrenchment, Mohammed Azharuddin Nadaf, a software professional with Mphasis was contemplating a job shift. Azhar posted his CV at a job portal.

In the first week of October, a woman called Sunitha Anil, claiming to be a HR executive, phoned him and offered him a job at IBM. She took him to the ITPL office of IBM. There, she introduced Azhar to Leyan, an IBM staffer, who gave him a recruitment letter asking him to report at IBM’s Koramangala office in November. Azhar paid Rs one lakh for the favour and went home.

After that, Azhar showed the recruitment letter to a friend working with IBM. He grew suspicious on seeing the letter which did not have the e-mail ID of the person to be contacted for induction.

Then, Azhar went to IBM’s Koramangala office and discovered that he had been conned.

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