Six of every ten fake CVs direct link to Hyderabad

BANGALORE: Not content with faking passports, visas and CVs, expert forgers are also meeting the needs of dubious IT aspirants.

Agents across the country are raking in the moolah by selling fake access and identity cards, appointment letters, pay revision letters, bank statements, and even relieving letters of companies and banks.

A fortnight ago, Wipro Technologies interviewed a candidate who walked into its MG Road office with a whole bunch of fake documents, including an interview call letter from Wipro. Its HR staff smelt a rat and on interrogation, they uncovered the true extent of the candidate’s duplicity.

Wipro let the Andhra Pradesh-based fraudster go after obtaining a written apology, in which he wrote, “I went to a shopping mall in Bangalore. There I met a job consultant. I paid him Rs 3,000 and in turn he got me fake certificates, ID card, offer letter, letter of salary hike, pay slips and bank statements. With these, I applied for a techie’s job in Wipro.”

An e-mail interview call letter received by another candidate had the following details: “Dear candidate, your resume is found on TimesJobs.com and you have been selected for the job you sought for. Your interview will be held on February 10 at Wipro’s Noida office. You have to come with photo copies of all required documents. First you have to deposit Rs 5,300 in any branch of a bank (name withheld) in the account number XXX in favour of Sr HRD. This money along with your travel allowance and DA will be refunded by the company on the day of the interview.”

Wipro has taken a serious view of the matter and even shared some cases with its peers. “It’s a serious menace growing in alarming proportions. We have given special training to our talent acquisition team to be extremely cautious of such questionable elements trying to creep into the system. We are talking to ten of our peers so that together we can find ways to fight the menace. The idea is to create a pool of fake CVs and share them between us so that we are insulated. This will also create awareness in the market,” said Pradeep Bahirwani, vice-president, talent acquisition, Wipro Technologies.

According to Bahirwani, candidates from secondary cities easily fall prey to these “agents”. According to a recent KPMG report, one of every four CVs in the Indian tech space is fake. Also, six of every ten fake CVs have a direct or indirect link to Hyderabad.

Courtesy: TimesOfIndia