How the fake-jobs industry scams Indians

Police departments across India, dozens of unemployed people, and placement agents all agree: online job scams are rampant. A scarcity of jobs and the anonymity of the Internet are enabling an Indian industry built around fake job promises. Why are so many people being tricked? How much money are they losing? How does this industry operate?
Through the summer of 2017, a colleague and I followed two young job seekers through a fraudulent placement network in Delhi consisting of recruitment agencies, training centres, job websites and call centres until one of them gave up after being cheated of her money and the other ended up as a job scammer.
Read the story on Hindustan Times
This is how it appeared in print. From the timeline of Bobby Ghosh, HT's Editor-in-Chief at the time of publication:
One of the most ambitious stories we’ve attempted at @htTweets. I’m so proud of @snigdhapoonam and Samarth Bansal for superb work on this. pic.twitter.com/N1Msw4B9Cw
— Bobby Ghosh (@ghoshworld) October 21, 2017
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