The public is being strongly advised to stay vigilant against a fraudulent online recruitment racket operating under the guise of the Reserve Bank of India. A highly deceptive phishing email is circulating among job seekers that falsely claims the recipient’s resume has passed a final screening for an ongoing recruitment exercise.
The email goes on to offer immediate employment while warning the victim that other candidates are waiting for the same opportunity, creating a false sense of urgency to trick people into acting quickly.
This elaborate scam uses several deceptive tactics to appear legitimate, including official-sounding letterheads and references to an electronic transfer department in New Delhi.
However, a closer look reveals glaring red flags, most notably a demand for an upfront payment of 24,800 rupees for processing, registration, and recruitment fees. Furthermore, despite claiming to be an official communication from the central bank, the email instructs victims to send their passport photos, valid ID proofs, and payments to a generic public Gmail account, rbireserve983@gmail.com, rather than an official government domain.
In addition to financial fraud, the scammers are actively phishing for highly sensitive personal and financial data. The email requests that targets reply with their full name, residential address, mobile number, occupation, marital status, bank name, account number, and account holder name. The message also directs users to a fraudulent tracking website, www. rbi-recruitment- 2018, and signs off with a fabricated name, listed as the RBI Governor.
The Reserve Bank of India has repeatedly clarified that it never requests money or processing fees for recruitments, nor does it secure jobs through third-party emails or public email domains like Gmail. All legitimate job notifications and applications are hosted exclusively on their official website. If you receive an email matching this description, you are strongly urged not to reply, not to share your banking or identity details, and to report the incident immediately to the official cybercrime authorities.
This article is written by Hannah Judith Johnson, a student of Tezpur University, interning with Deccan Chronicle.
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