Airoli Sr Citizen Duped Of 1.3cr In Bitcoin Scam | Navi Mumbai News
NAVI MUMBAI: A 63-year-old woman residing in a high rise society in Airoli has been defrauded of Rs 1.3 crore in a Bitcoin scam by a group of three cyber fraudsters.
The complainant is a retired IT engineer, who was duped monetarily after being approached on Telegram by three women who claimed to be representatives of Global Chart Company Pvt Ltd and KUCOIN company. The trio offered her to invest money in a Bitcoin scheme by assuring her crypto money with profit as per 30 per cent rating.
According to the FIR, on March 8, the complainant received a link shopvpwork.top from two telegram Ids @Chander112 and @Nanda118118. As she opened the link, she found a chart showing a Bitcoin investment scheme wherein she was offered profit in crypto money at 30 per cent rating, if she invested in INR. Hence, she chatted with the three accused women Uma Chander, Laxmi Davi and Alexander Laxmi, and as per their guidance and consultantation, the complainant Initially invested Rs50,000 in Bitcoin scheme by transferring the payment to the bank account of Video Promotion Club provided by the Telegram account holder. As her crypto account chart showed profits as per 30 per cent rating, thereafter, she gradually invested a total of Rs 1.3 crore till April 10 by transferring the payment by RTGS and IMPS for investment in Bitcoin scheme.
For more than a month, as the complainant did not get her returns of Rs 1.9 crore including her invested money and profit as per 30 per cent rating, she questioned the women on Telegram, but they gave evasive replies. Later, the complainant found that her Telegram chats have been deleted, and her account has been blocked by the three women. That’s when she realised that she had been cheated. Thereafter, on April 14, she registered an FIR under IPC sections 420 and 34 and section 66(d) of the IT Act (amended), 2008, at Rabale police station against the three accused women and the concerned persons of Global Chart Company Pvt Ltd and KUCOIN company.
The complainant is a retired IT engineer, who was duped monetarily after being approached on Telegram by three women who claimed to be representatives of Global Chart Company Pvt Ltd and KUCOIN company. The trio offered her to invest money in a Bitcoin scheme by assuring her crypto money with profit as per 30 per cent rating.
According to the FIR, on March 8, the complainant received a link shopvpwork.top from two telegram Ids @Chander112 and @Nanda118118. As she opened the link, she found a chart showing a Bitcoin investment scheme wherein she was offered profit in crypto money at 30 per cent rating, if she invested in INR. Hence, she chatted with the three accused women Uma Chander, Laxmi Davi and Alexander Laxmi, and as per their guidance and consultantation, the complainant Initially invested Rs50,000 in Bitcoin scheme by transferring the payment to the bank account of Video Promotion Club provided by the Telegram account holder. As her crypto account chart showed profits as per 30 per cent rating, thereafter, she gradually invested a total of Rs 1.3 crore till April 10 by transferring the payment by RTGS and IMPS for investment in Bitcoin scheme.
For more than a month, as the complainant did not get her returns of Rs 1.9 crore including her invested money and profit as per 30 per cent rating, she questioned the women on Telegram, but they gave evasive replies. Later, the complainant found that her Telegram chats have been deleted, and her account has been blocked by the three women. That’s when she realised that she had been cheated. Thereafter, on April 14, she registered an FIR under IPC sections 420 and 34 and section 66(d) of the IT Act (amended), 2008, at Rabale police station against the three accused women and the concerned persons of Global Chart Company Pvt Ltd and KUCOIN company.
