RJio goes on offensive to combat ‘tower scam’

Scamsters have been collecting funds from landowners for fake tower sites

After unearthing a mobile tower scam, which appears to be rampant across the country, Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio) has decided to contain the menace.

The company discovered that scamsters claiming to be RJio representatives were mailing letters on forged letterheads to owners of land parcels, promising a rent of ₹10,000-50,000 a month (depending on the location) on signing a two-year contract for setting up tower sites.

A person lured by the offer would be asked to deposit ₹7,000-14,000 into a bank account as a registration fee. The bank account would be kept running for another month or so in an attempt to dupe as many as possible. Then the scamsters would quietly withdraw their loot, close the account, shut down their phones and vanish.