vijayawada fraudsters are on the prowl on online job portals luring desperate job seekers in the name of work from home job opportunities in the guise of giving customer care executive jobs they are collecting money from job seekers for registration and training another modus operandi is to open demat accounts without the knowledge of job seekersas work from home has become a new norm post covid19 pandemic many job seekers especially women started searching for jobs online another phenomenon that emerged during the pandemic is a sudden surge in opening of demat accounts as several people started investing and trading in stock market the total demat accounts in india rose by 145 per cent from 49 crore to 145 crore in two yearstaking advantage of demand for new demat accounts several companies entered into stock broking business cashing in on the competition between stock broking companies fraudsters started luring innocent job seekers and opening demat accounts in their names only to earn commission from the broking companiesa soujanya was cheated with a different kind of modus operandi she got an offer from a company which claimed to have third party agreement with a big finance and stock broking company she was offered a telecaller job where she was supposed to explain various financial products to the customers in the name of joining process they asked for aadhaar and bank account details and opened two different demat accounts with two stock broking companies she was asked to provide otp that comes from uidai to open demat account soujanya realised much later that she was cheated as the person stopped responding to her messagesfraudsters also take advantage of huge demand for work from home jobs by posting ads on online job portals offering telecaller customer care executive and data entry operator jobs contrary to the job role they promise they are making the job seekers join others by offering commission the modus operandi is to run a chain marketing system and to collect money in the name of registrations t lalitha a homemaker from poranki applied for more than 15 jobs online she received offer letter from all the companies which claimed to be providing third party service to big corporates they would send offer letters in no time and then would ask to pay 500 to 3000 towards registration i paid 500 to a person who claimed himself as hr manager of the company after the payment was made he asked me to wait for three days and then four days for training after about 15 days he started asking me to get another five people this continued for a month and one day his phone become not reachable he just sent an offer letter with company name but no address or phone number were mentioned in that then i realised that he cheated me from then i am not paying money and so far i have not found anyone who genuinely offered me a job without asking money she