PONDA, Nov. 8 -- Team Herald

The multiple cash-for-jobs scams erupting across Goa have blown the lid off a chain of networks, where the scam kingpins and queen-pins recruited operatives, who then reached out to gullible individuals ready to cough up lakhs for lucrative government jobs.

But when the jobs didn't materialise and the scam victims started asking for their money back, the same operatives turned on their masters and mistresses and went to the police with their complaints. In some cases, these operatives were victims of the scams as well, as they had also paid money for a dream government job.

The lines between perpetrator and victim are often getting blurred as the investigation into the cash-for-jobs scams progresses. Accord...