A sensational case of cyber fraud has come to light in Shahpur, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Here a person lost lakhs of rupees in the greed of double profit. However, after realizing that he was cheated, he lodged a complaint with the cyber police. Police are looking for the thugs.
Sachin Kumar Srivastava, a resident of Sivapuram area of Shahpur police station area, told the police that my mobile number was linked to a WhatsApp group, so I thought it must be such a common group. Slowly, there were talks of investment in that group. Some people were saying that the money I deposited last month has tripled this month. Someone was saying that my money has quadrupled. Someone even talked about a double. I was also curious as to what is the truth in such a situation.
The victim told the police
According to the victim, when I asked the group people about this, they said, invest money online, there will be huge profit. I deposited some money in the beginning and in the next month it increased to Rs 50,000 and Rs 1.25 lakh and the money also returned to my account. In such a situation, my greed increased even more. I gradually invested more money. People from that group connected me to a group on Telegram and then the big investment started there. During this time, my ID was also created by sending a link from Google. Gradually I invested Rs 10 lakh 32000 through that group. My money stopped.
The person said that after this every time I received information, people said that your money has also increased by one and a half times. Then they said it doubled, then when they started saying it tripled, I said give the money back to my account. Those people said ok at first. Slowly two-three days passed and he started hedging when I asked. After a few days he stopped replying to messages. Then when I pushed, they said your money will come back but you have to pay 15% service charge on triple amount. He will deposit the money, after which your money will go into your account.
What did the police officer say?
Sachin said that when such things started happening, I had doubts in my mind that something was wrong with me. Turns out I was scammed. In this regard, SSP Dr. Gaurav Grover said that the cyber police has registered a case based on the complaint. Every day we warn people not to make any investment online or through any unknown app or give any information about their account or any financial situation. However, people are not agreeing with it, due to which people are getting cheated. Police have registered a case. The case is being investigated.
