LUCKNOW, July 11 -- A recruitment fraud has surfaced in the Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD), where fraudsters allegedly issued fake interview letters in the name of the department's special secretary for recruitment to clerical posts, prompting several unsuspecting candidates to report for interviews before the scam was detected.

Although the issue came to the department's notice between May 1 and May 16, when candidates carrying the purported interview letters arrived at the PWD office to appear for interviews, it came into the public domain on Thursday after Hazratganj police registered an FIR against unidentified persons.

According to the complaint lodged by Ashutosh Kumar Dwivedi, special secretary, PWD, forged interview...