Monsterindia.com — Conducting an interview after paying registration fees and asking additionally document verification charges

On December 5, 2020 I received a call from the number +91 [protected] at 3:51 PM by a person named Rajeev who was claiming that he was from Monster India and he told me that he had my CV and he said that there are two job profiles available in Tech Mahindra based on your CV - Manual Testing Engineer and Automatic Testing Engineer in Bangalore and Hyderabad. I opted for Manual Testing Engineer at Hyderabad. He said that there’ll be a voice-only interview for which you have to pay a fees of Rs. 2985 on Google Pay on the number +91 [protected] (registered by name the Monster India). I paid that fee and then he mailed me the interview ID and I received the interviewer’s call on 8:35 pm by the number +91 [protected] and I gave the interview. After that I received that person’s (Rajeev’s) call again and he told me that I had been selected and I’ll have to verify my documents so I sent him my documents (10th, 12th, graduation and post-graduation’s marksheets) and he told me that I’ll have to give him the document verification charges of Rs. 5885 and both the charges will be refunded to me when I’ll join at Hyderabad within 7 days and that I’ll get my offer letter by 12 noon the next day (December 6, 2020). I sent the money via Paytm on the number +91 [protected] (it was registered on Paytm by the name “Sannala Harshvardhan Reddy”).

On December 6, 2020, he sent me the offer letter in password-protected PDF form via WhatsApp and on asking him why Tech Mahindra is not sending me the offer letter via e-mail, he sent me an email by an e-mail address [protected]@techmahindra.co.in and person named Sathish N, Senior HR . Which apparently seemed a fake email address as Tech Mahindra’s website goes by techmahindra.com and on checking the previous e-mail, I found out that the previous e-mail was from [protected]@monsterindia.co.in which also seemed fake as Monster India’s domain name is monsterindia.com. He said that you’ll get the password of the Offer Letter PDF only when you pay me Rs. 5000 as my company commission. I told him that this all seems fishy to me and I can’t give you anymore money and on asking him to refund my money, he said that my refund will be processed within five to seven working days, though he was calling me on Sunday which is not a working day. On asking for the money right then he asked me for my bank account number, my IFSC code and account holder’s name. I gave it to him and when I asked him to process the refund right at the moment, he said that he was busy and it’ll be processed within five to seven working days and if I had any other way to obtain the money, I could go by it. So I’m registering this complaint. Please resolve my issue by refunding my money back.