A brazen job scam exposes an employment crisis in India
NEW DELHI - The two young engineering graduates had just been told by a job recruiter that they'd aced their interviews, but on the overnight train back to their hometown in southern India, they began to wonder if it was too good to be true.
After struggling to find decent work, the 26-year-olds seemed close to landing good jobs with the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp., one of India's biggest companies. Pulling out a cellphone in the clattering train car, they tapped out a web search for "ONGC" and "fake jobs."
They had heard about graduates conned into paying recruiters for jobs that didn't exist. And the recruiter who summoned them was asking for thousands of dollars.
But their search turned up nothing nefarious, so they relaxed - and emptied their parents' bank accounts before reporting to work in
