ahmedabad the gujarat police on saturday arrested a man for allegedly placing fake advertisements about jobs in local newspapers and collecting money from people as application fees an official saidcyber crime officials nabbed sandeep pandya in connection with placing advertisements resembling those issued by the state government for openings in various departments a release here statedon friday the state government had warned job aspirants not to fall prey to fake advertisements that appeared in local newspapers on october 15subsequently a case was registered under sections 406 criminal breach of trust 419 and 420 cheating and relevant provisions of the information technology act an official saidbased on a technical analysis pandya was found responsible for placing the advertisement and further probe is underway to track down others involved in the scam he saidthe probe is focussed on another accused in whose account around rs 14 lakh have been collected he addedaccording to the police the advertisement for direct recruitment by gujarat employment services sought applications from job seekers between the ages of 18 and 50 for 2520 vacancies for six posts like business development officer customer service officer district officer computer operator etc on a 11month contractapplicants were asked to fill a form on the website wwwgujaratescoin and deposit rs 300 as application fee for jobs that came with the incentive of work from home due to the covid19 pandemic the police saidwatch fake job scam man arrested by cyber crime officials in gujarat