Bhubaneswar: Cannot ignore the lure of easy money, a man from Coraput Regency lost Rs 75.58 lakh for cyber criminals who promised him to pay insurance around Rs 1.5 Crore.
The incident was revealed when Susanta Kumar Behera (44), a city resident of Township in Sunabeda, filed a complaint with a crime branch cyber cell in the cuttack on Wednesday.
Behera has bought seven online insurance policies, worth several lakh, from various companies on January 25, 2018.
He believes the bonus is decent after a month.
When he did not receive a guaranteed bonus, he filed a complaint with Bima Lokpal in Bhubaneswar in July 2019.
On February 20 this year, a woman called him and introduced himself as the Bima Local officer from Kolkata.
He asked Behera to deposit RS 1 Lakh as a registration fee.
Assuming the caller became the original employee of Bima Lokpal, he transferred money to a bank account distributed by him on the same day.
After several months, two other men called Behera and posed as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officer.
They told Behera that they had called to verify whether he had filed a complaint with Bima Lokpal and asked him to obey the instruction of a female officer.
Some time later the woman returned to contact Behera and told him that the amount of insurance had risen and he would receive around Rs 1.5 Crore as payment.
He then continued to demand money towards income tax, GST and other charges.
Behera took a loan from Lendersbehera’s money trusting him blindly and transferred around Rs 75.58 lakh between February and October to a different bank account for him.
“Strangely, Behera regulates money by taking loans from friends and lenders of money,” said a crime branch officer.
When contacted, Behera said, “I am in serious trouble and I suffer from depression.
I have nothing to say.” The police said they had been flooded with such types of complaints.
Despite the massive awareness of fraud and cyber reports in the media, many people still fall prey to cyber criminals, the officer said.
On Tuesday, senior IPS officer Susant Nath’s Wife Anuja Tripathy filed a complaint with a branch of crime that alleged that some criminal crims pulled Rs 10.10 lakh from his salary account in the past two years.