Nagpur: Soyabean Farmer Rupesh Dhage from Wardha is in Cloud Nine after winning RS21 Lakh through the fantasy cricket game application earlier this year.
He even pulled RS1 Lakh from RS15 Lakh accepted in his account after reducing various additional costs.
However, his happiness was short-lived as a hacker, imitating the gaming application executive, managed to suck around RS14 Lakh left in the application account after buying ID and password from him on January 12.
This is done under the pretext of updating your customer’s details (KYC).
Jackpot has changed the life of farmers from Chistur village in Ashti Taluka from Wardha, who are passionate about fantasy sports games.
It was studied by Dhange to about 4 acre rent where he had sowed the Soyabean this year.
He was involved in playing games during his free time.
After the scamster attacked, Dhage rushed to Wardha Cyber Cell Cell, who managed to take the entire amount lost from RS14 Lakh and returned it to his account.
Police Wardha Cyber Cell Team Senior Inspector Sanjay Gaikwad and Assistant Pi Mahendra Ingle, which consists of Dinesh Police Constabulary Dinesh, Nilesh Kattojwar, Vishal Madavi and others, under the SP Prashant Holkar first reaches them about fraud.
The source said Dhage had RS15 Lakh on its gaming application account after receiving a prize to install the best team.
After interesting RS1 Lakh, he tried to attract several lakhs of the winning number but could not do it because of some technical problems.
At this point, Dhage is approached by a cheater to update its KYC in an application account, as if it will open the way for a smooth withdrawal.
After Dhage shares the game application ID and password, the number is sucked from the account by Trickster.
“Cyber cells approach nodal officers from the game application to ask them to stop cash from moving from payment wallets.
Gaming companies respond to the correspondence of Wardha Police and ensure the restored amount to the Dhage account,” said a cyber cop from Wardha.
“The complainant gets RS14 Lakh back in four days, on January 16,” he said.
It learned cyber cells Wardha police also helped the power of railroad protection (RPF) Jawan, who lost more than RS12 Lakh in the same way from the game application in the past.
Soyabean farmers won RS15L in the gaming application, hackers took them all, the police recovered it
