4 arrested for cyber fraud, police find data of 27,000 people on their computers

When a 30-year-old hotel manager from Chembur, who had been looking to move abroad, saw an email from the “Hilton hotel in Canada” on January 15 offering him a job, he was elated.

He had been looking for a job in a foreign hotel through various portals, including shine.com and linked.in. He was immediately sent an appointment letter and asked to get in touch with “diplomat Mark Brown”.

Brown, in turn, asked him to pay visa fee, programme fee, employment authorisation and basic travelling allowance fee and got him to deposit Rs 17.22 lakh in various bank accounts. After realising that he had been duped since he did not hear back from the hotel, the man filed a complaint with the police.