Mangaluru: A man has fallen prey to online job fraud.
He reportedly lost almost Rs 25.4 lakh, after he was promised work through the online portal.
In the complaint registered at the Cyber, Economic and Narcotics Police Station (CEN), he claimed that he had renewed the details on the Shine.com website on April 6, 2021.
After this, he accused the call from an Ancur Desai, who asked him to register Details in SecureCeTeRer.com.
He paid Rs 2,358 and registered on the portal.
He then transferred Rs 4,130 from the ICICI Bank account for document processing and verification fees.
He claimed that between April 7, 2021 to January 18 this year, he transferred the 10.6 lakh Rs through UPI payments related to the ICICI bank account on various occasions.
He made more payments, after the defendant assured him that they would get a refund.
Learned that from his NAT Bank in India, the Kapathkal branch account, he has transferred almost the 14.8 lakh Rs on a different occasion, between August 27 last year, and January 21.
He said that he had received a call from Ankur Desai, Anamika Sharma, Anuradha, Sonia, Priyanka Reddy, Rajeev, Pooja, Lakshmi and Pallavi, promising to him work, and that he had lost almost Rs 25.4 lakh.