Bengaluru: A 64-year-old man from Dharwad lost Rs 25 Lakh to a gang that showed him forged documents that interesting business funds were stuck with RBI and they needed money to be released.
Raja Ram Jevaji Bettasur, a resident of Dharwad, met Madhusudan, one of the gang members, when he came to Bengalaru a few months ago.
Madhusudan sent fake documents to Bettasur with the help of his colleague Sridhar Murthy.
They claimed that they needed Rs 25 lakh to get the funds released for Murthy.
Bethtasur didn’t know Murthy and Madhusudhan worked together.
He promised his agricultural land for Rs 10 Lakh and took Rs 15 Lakh as a loan from his friend Sangamesh.
Bettasur transferred Rs 14 Lakh to two bank accounts provided by Murthy’s helpers and gave Rs 11 lakh cash to gang members in Dodakallasandandra on Kanakapura road on June 24.
The gang member then sued Bethtasur to set Rs 10 lakh.
However, Bettasur felt something wrong and submitted a case of cheating against Sridhar Murthy, Kanharaju, Madhusudan, Naveen Kumar, Shivashankar and Manjunath.
The woman ordered wine online, losing 12k to a fraudster a 38-year-old woman from Richmond Town lost almost Rs 12,000 for Cybercriminals while making an online order for wine.
There (name changed) said he was looking to buy wine online, find a cellphone number on the internet and order for one bottle.
The recipient call him to pay first and promised to send wine to his house.
“I paid Rs 5,900 online and got a call from the same number.
The caller claimed to be a wine shop employee and asked me to pay Rs 20 again to produce a bill with GST.
He sent me a QR code, which I initially refused to scan, and demanded money I returned.
He sent me another QR code for repayment and I scan only to find that the other 5,900 Rs has been debited from my account.
Overall, I lost Rs 11,800, “there was a complaint in his complaint.