Chennai: Three people including two women have been arrested for cheating several job aspirants of more than 1 crore, promising them jobs in Greater Chennai Corporation and even paying regular monthly salaries to at least one victim for several months. Chintadripet residents I Joshitha, 28, Jayachandran, 42, and V Revathi, 45, who have so far cheated at least 23 victims of nearly 1.35 crore, have been sent to jail. The incident came to light when 72-year-old Ramasubramanian of Santhoshapuram reported that his son Venkatachalam was duped by a gang from Chintadripet in 2023. He was promised a Corporation Inspector job and asked to pay 12 lakh in three instalments. He was then given an ‘appointment order’ and ID card. Joshitha, posing as a GCC official, became his ‘trainer’ and told him he would receive a monthly salary of 42,000, initially in cash and through bank transfer once the job became permanent.Believing the offer was real, he began working from Aug 2023, taking daily photographs of rubbish bins across different parts of the city and uploading them through a mobile application, as instructed and received regular monthly salary from Aug 2023 to July 2024. In Sept 2024, the group told him about a vacancy in a project called “A Square” and demanded an additional 4 lakh, which he paid. He was then led to believe he was officially working under this project and received a monthly salary of 56,000 from Oct 2024 to March 2025.In April 2025, they convinced him an assistant commissioner post could be secured for 10 lakh. After handing over the sum, he stopped receiving any salary. When questioned, they gave inconsistent replies and demanded a further 14 lakh. Becoming suspicious, he approached the GCC and found that the appointment orders and ID cards he received were fake.A special team carried out a probe, arrested three people and seized around 29g of gold jewellery, a two-wheeler, forged documents, fake ID cards, and other related material. Police said Revathi and Joshitha, masquerading as GCC officials, used fake identity cards and orchestrated a systematic scam and collected large sums of money from 23 people.