Primarily based on the criticism, an FIR was registered in opposition to the unknown lady. (Representational)
Gurugram:
An government of a Gurugram-based consulting agency was defrauded of about Rs 38 lakh by a girl who befriended him via a matrimonial web site, police mentioned.
The sufferer was lured into investing in a cryptocurrency named deuncoin and was requested for varied different fees, they mentioned.
An FIR was registered at Cyber Crime East police station, police mentioned, including that the accused might be arrested quickly.
In keeping with a criticism filed by the consulting agency government Naman Aggarwal, he met a girl named Ridhi Sharma through jeevansaathi.com in November 2023.
The girl claimed to have been residing in London for the previous 5 years and that she was a local of Kolkata. After speaking for a while, he developed a liking for her, Naman Aggarwal mentioned.
“Someday she lured me to spend money on cryptocurrency and made my buying and selling account on the web site m.deuncoin.vip. The hyperlink to this web site was despatched by her on WhatsApp and the shopper care staff of the buying and selling platform was additionally communicated with through WhatsApp.
“She requested me to speculate Rs 10 lakh initially and mentioned she’s going to switch the same quantity to my buying and selling account.
On December 20, the sufferer mentioned he obtained a message on WhatsApp from the Deuncoin buyer care help staff that the quantity transferred by Ridhi Sharma was an act of cash laundering and got here below the scanner of economic motion, and the duty drive requested him to deposit the same sum inside 24 hours to revive the traditional standing of the buying and selling account warning that it might in any other case be frozen.
“I deposited Rs 10 lakh once more and requested them for withdrawal of my cash. They pressured me to switch cash within the identify of various fees,” the person mentioned in his criticism.
Even after paying Rs 38 lakh, they have been nonetheless demanding more cash which satisfied him that the lady was concerned in the entire “fraud”, the person mentioned.
The modus operandi was to first win the person’s belief after which make him a sufferer of economic fraud,” Naman Aggarwal mentioned.
Primarily based on the criticism, an FIR was registered in opposition to the unknown lady and different fraudsters below Part 420 (dishonest) of IPC on the cyber police station, east. A senior cyber police officer mentioned {that a} probe is underway and the accused might be arrested quickly.
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