evidence: KOCHI: The Kerala Police have sounded caution against a scam wherein people are being offered the job of packing pencils on ‘work from home’ basis. The advisory, posted on the Kerala Police’s social media handles, requested people to stay away from such advertisements that are posted online. Said a Facebook post by the police: "The advertisements are circulated in the name of a leading pencil manufacturing company offering jobs that let people earn lakhs of rupees from home. Contact numbers are given in the advertisements. It has been noticed the numbers vary with each advertisement." [...] The post said Nataraj, the flagship brand of Hindustan Pencils Pvt Ltd, has termed such advertisements fake, and clarified that they were not recruiting people through this modus.