Bengaluru: A 37-year-old businessman from the Kr Puram area accused that cyber criminals tied him to the pretext of giving him a dealer to sell electric bicycles and cheat him from Rs 4 Lakh.
Avinash, a resident of Margondanahalli, near Kr Puram, told the police that he was interested in taking a dealer from an electric bicycle company to sell their two-wheeled vehicles and registered for online on January 11 this year.
But he never got a reply from the company.
Meanwhile, on June 17, he found an ad on behalf of the same bicycle company on social media.
He applied for the second time on the website mentioned in the ad.
“This time, I received a call from someone who introduced himself as Sanjeev Mishra, a representative from a bicycle company.
He assured me about the dealer.
They sent detailed applications via email and I filled it and sent him back on July 27.
Mishra and his colleague Rakesh Pandesh told him I am me eligible for the dealer.
I transferred Rs 4,10,500 in two installments to them on August 10, “Avinash said.
According to the police, Avinash then tried to contact the suspects by telephone, but found the cellphone number turned off.
He also learned that the company’s website address was different from which he applied for a dealer for the second time.
Avinash approached the Cen Whitefield crime police station on Wednesday and filed a complaint of fraud and Cyberrime against the suspect’s duo.