Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A youth from Haryana was arrested for duping a person from the city of Rs 60 lakh after luring him with the promise of a good profit in online task investment, police said here on Saturday. The complainant had taken some money on loan from a bank to transfer it to the accused.
According to DCP (crime) Rajesh Kumar Tripathi, a person named Mohammad Hidayatullah had complained on NCRP portal that he had received a WhatsApp message from an unknown mobile number, in which the sender’s name was mentioned as Soumya Prakash.
Soumya offered the complainant a part time job and informed him that he could earn Rs 2000 to Rs 4000 per day. Initially the complainant had refused, but after the sender’s constant follow-up and insistence for a demo, he agreed.
The conman sent him a link and asked him to register through his mobile number. After he registered, the conman informed him that the company would give Rs 10000 in the account for the demo. The conman had informed the complainant that he had to complete 18 bids through the ‘start bidding’ icon, through which a gold ornament would be shown.
There would be a shown price and a selling price for each ornament. The conman had lured that the difference between the price and the selling price would be given to him as a commission in each bidding. After completing 18 bids, he could withdraw the commission.
After completing 18 bids, the conman asked him to withdraw by clicking on ‘sell out’ option in the portal. The conman had asked him to share the sold out screenshot on a social media channel. The complainant followed the process and received Rs 1125.
After that, the conman sent a link of a social media platform and told him to add his number in the group to know the update of other investors. When he joined the group, he was told to deposit more money to earn a good profit. The complainant later transferred Rs 8000 to the bank account given by the accused and received 11761 the second time.
The conman later informed him that he could earn 100 percent of the bonus if he deposited Rs 1 lakh. After seeing the fake profits of others, the complainant deposited Rs 2 lakh and completed the biddings when he got a diamond bid and was instructed to deposit Rs 5.70 lakh.
Then, he took a pre-approved loan from a bank and deposited Rs 5.90 lakh in the bank account given by the conman. After that, he transferred Rs 12.32 lakh and Rs 20.65 lakh and was informed that he could earn Rs 76 lakh by depositing more money.
The complainant deposited a total of Rs 59.94 lakh but could not withdraw the amount. Then he lodged a complaint at the NCRP portal. The crime branch registered a case under various sections of BNS and managed to arrest 22-year-old Mandeep, a resident of Hisar in Haryana in connection with the fraud. He allegedly informed the crime branch officials that hundreds of youths were duping people in this way.
