A Bengaluru-based software professional lost over Rs 50 lakh in an online investment scam, echoing hundreds of cases reported on India's national cybercrime portal in recent months. There are many similar cases exposed on this site:
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According to a case filed with the Bengaluru cybercrime police, Darshan S was allegedly defrauded of Rs 50.53 lakh after being lured into performing a mission. The technician claimed that a foreign phone number contacted him through the WhatsApp and Telegram messaging platforms and promised him huge returns on investment to perform tasks assigned by the unidentified operator.
Initially, he invested a small amount of money and received returns that convinced him that the scheme was real. The scammer then asked him to invest more money, up to Rs 10 lakh, and told him that if he completed all the tasks assigned to him, he would get all the money back with interest, but that was not the case. smoothly.
A police officer said: "After asking the victim to deposit more than 5 million rupees into different accounts, the fraudsters stopped responding to the victim's refund requests." It is said that the fraud occurred on September 26 Between October 15th and October 15th, the suspects were a woman named Emma and a private advertising company.
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"The modus operandi in this case is the same as what we have seen in several cases in recent days and is one that we have traced to the local perpetrators."
Police have lodged a fraud complaint of Rs 8.5 lakh against a 26-year-old woman who was initially lured into investing small amounts on an app for high returns and later on a WhatsApp group Following investigations, a local fraud syndicate operating in collaboration with international operators in Bengaluru was uncovered in September.
A cybercrime police investigation into a Bengaluru-based fraud network into which fraudulent funds were transferred through 84 bank accounts revealed that as much as Rs 854 crore was quickly transferred through these bank accounts in the past two years.
When cybercrime police tracked down the accounts and froze them in September to prevent them from being used in more scams, only Rs 5 crore was left in the accounts. Investigators then searched the National Cyber Crime Portal for bank accounts linked to Bengaluru cybercrime. They found 5,013 cases across India of cybercriminals using the same set of bank accounts to transfer money defrauded from victims.
