Bhubaneswar: IT professionals from Coraput Odisha Regency have lost Rs 42.67 lakh for Cyber ​​Scammer, which offers high returns in a short time in online stock trading.
The 28-year-old victim, who refused to be named and identified, filed a complaint with the Cyber ​​cell branch of the state crime in Cuttack on December 28.
The complainant said a woman contacted her through Whatsapt on October 11 and introduced itself as a trade agent.
After short formal interaction, the woman sent it a screenshot of several successful investors and overnight growth of their portfolio (investment).
“When I asked further, he sent me a successful bank transaction from their existing customers.
I agreed and invested a sum of money.
I got a refund of Rs 9,500 in a fast time.
After getting my trust, they lure me to invest more, which I did, “The victim complained.
The crime branch said the complainant invested large money and paid 30% of the total investment to regain the initial deposit and profit.
In total, he paid around Rs 42.67 lakh.
“When he did not receive money, he realized that he had been cheated.
The woman, who had called him, did not receive his call again.
We tried to find cyber criminals,” said a crime branch officer.
The police have registered a case below Section 419 (cheating on personation), 420 (cheating), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for cheating purposes), 471 (using fake documents to the original), 120-B (criminal conspiracy (criminal conspiracy )) and 34 (actions carried out by several people with shared intentions) of the IPC and other relevant parts of the IT 2000 Law Police said that kind of fraud like that has become one of the most common modus operandi today and many fraudsters operate from various parts of the country To broadly publish investment schemes on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, etc.
Criminals use the name of a luxury product that claims to double investor investors in a short time.
Maya’s crime continues the massive awareness campaign held by the police and the government regularly.
In the past few days, the branch of state crime has been flooded with several cases of fraud.
While cyber criminals cheatedly pulled Rs 10.10 Lakh from a bank account of a wife of senior IPS officers, a coraput-based man who was lost around Rs 75 lakh for cyber criminals, which offered bonus insurance rs 1.5 crore.