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This incident of cheating was carried out between February and May this year. It has come to the fore now. -Symbolic Image
A case of cheating of Rs 1.27 crore has come to light from a person from Mumbai. In fact, he recently sold his flat for Rs 1.27 crore. He wanted to invest this amount in a new flat.
Meanwhile, a woman duped him of crores by assuring him of giving good returns in less investment in a part time job. The cheating incident was carried out between February and May this year, which has now come to the fore.
Was given the task of rating hotels and films
The victim told that he had received a message from a woman on Telegram. The woman lured to give good returns in less investment in part time job. The woman said that I will share you the links of movies and hotels, you have to give them ratings. After that I have to send the screenshot of it.
The person said that I liked the work, so I said yes. After this, the woman shared a web link with me, in which I had to give information like my bank details. And also gave login and password to see the e-wallet being shown on it.
7000 came in wallet after rating a hotel
He shared the details of an account with me and asked me to deposit Rs 10,000. After depositing Rs 10,000 in that account, the woman sent me a link to a website. In which there were details of some hotels, I rated a hotel and sent its screenshot to the woman. Shortly after, Rs 17,372 arrived in the e-wallet of the link sent by the woman.
The lady sent me a link to rate a movie and asked me to deposit Rs 32,000. After rating the film, I got 55 thousand rupees in my e-wallet. After this the woman said that there is some technical fault in the link, I will have to send Rs 55,000 more to the woman. Then I sent Rs 55,000 to the woman.
After this, on 17th May, the woman asked me to deposit Rs 48 lakh in the bank account and shared some links to give ratings. After rating and transferring Rs 48 lakhs, Rs 60 lakhs started appearing in my e-wallet.
Then the woman told me that if I want to transfer 60 lakh rupees of e-wallet to the bank account then I have to pay additional 30 lakh rupees. Then on May 18, I transferred Rs 76 lakh to the woman’s account.
Even after this, when the money from the e-wallet did not come into my account, I felt cheated. I lodged an FIR by informing the police about the whole matter.
Fraudsters control your phone and empty your bank account.
Money was transferred to 8 accounts of Bengal-UP
Police say that initially the fraudsters transfer some money to their bank accounts to win the trust of the people. After this, they clear lakhs of rupees from people’s accounts. Investigation has revealed that he has transferred these rupees to 8 bank accounts of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
A police officer said that according to the FIR, a total of Rs 1.27 crore has been cheated from the person. This incident of cheating was carried out between February and May this year. We have frozen the bank accounts of the accused.