Placement Agency Scams: Red Flags to Know | Naukri Mitra
A nineteen-year-old in Delhi applied for a delivery job through an app called JOB HAI in mid-2025. A recruiter from an outfit calling itself Treasure Find Solution messaged him on social media, invited him for a quick interview, and then asked for a "registration fee," followed by charges for "document verification," "agreement processing," and even TDS — a pile of what scammers loosely label registration processing charges, all before any actual job began. He paid over Rs 9,000 in instalments through QR codes before the recruiter blocked his number. When Delhi Police eventually raided the racket's Nirman Vihar office, they found it had allegedly been running variations of the same scheme since 2011. It is a pattern that repeats across cities and platforms, and it is why so many job seekers now search for how to identify a fake placement agency scam before they hand over a single rupee. If you have ever been asked to pay before you have even been for...