Ex-employee of share trading company duped of Rs 4 lakh in money-doubling Bitcoin con | Mumbai News

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MUMBAI: Promis­ing to dou­ble mon­ey in Bit­coin invest­ments with­in 45 min­utes, uniden­ti­fied cyber fraud­sters duped a 27-year-old woman of Rs 3.88 lakh. The vic­tim, who ear­li­er worked with a share trad­ing firm, lodged an FIR with the LT Marg police on April 5.
The com­plainant had recent­ly quit her job and was at home. She came across an adver­tise­ment on Telegram about the Bit­coin mon­ey dou­bling invest­ment scheme. She had seen such mes­sages ear­li­er too, but this time, she opened a link giv­en in the mes­sage link and found a mobile num­ber in it. The woman called on the num­ber and the call receiv­er said he was from a Bit­coin com­pa­ny and explained the invest­ment scheme to the woman, con­vinc­ing her to invest in it say­ing her invest­ment will be dou­bled in 45 min­utes. The fraud­ster col­lect­ed the com­plainan­t’s bank account details where he said they would be send­ing her prof­it.
“The com­plainant ini­tial­ly invest­ed Rs 7,000. She was told that it will be dou­bled with­in 45 min­utes. How­ev­er, even after two to three hours when the prof­it was not deposit­ed to her account, she con­tact­ed the per­son and asked him about it. The accused told her that she had gained dou­ble prof­it and asked her to pay income tax fees, GST, legal fees etc,” said an offi­cer. The accused told her that by the time she sends the legal fees and oth­er charges, they would have fur­ther invest­ed her prof­it to dou­ble it. The accused com­mu­ni­cat­ed via What­sApp mes­sages and calls.
Police said between March 14 and March 20, the woman sent Rs 3.88 lakh in eight Indi­an bank accounts pro­vid­ed by the cyber fraud­ster through more than a dozen trans­ac­tions. “The woman kept ask­ing for her mon­ey but the accused would tell her to send more mon­ey as fees say­ing her invest­ment in Bit­coin was increas­ing. How­ev­er, after March 20, the accused stopped tak­ing her calls,” said police. This is when she realised she was duped. A team led by senior PI Jyoti Desai and com­pris­ing API Prakash Patil and head con­sta­ble San­tosh Paware is prob­ing the case.



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