cyber crime
cyber crimes
Surajpur. In Vishrampur of Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh, thugs made a girl engineer a victim of online fraud and defrauded Rs 16 lakh. The girl fell prey to cyber thugs while playing online games and lost Rs 16 lakh. It was only when the thugs asked the girl for Rs 7 lakh more that she realized she had been cheated. On the report of the girl, Bishrampur police has registered a case against unknown accused under section 420.
How the fraud was done…
According to the information received, the girl living in Shivanandanpur of Vishrampur is a computer engineer by profession. The girl got married six months ago in Visakhapatnam. A few days ago she had come to her maternal home in Vishrampur. In the complaint given to the police, the girl said that on September 6, a message from Football Digital Media came on her mobile number through the WhatsApp number of an unknown person and it was told that on following the link of WhatsApp, she will get Rs 50 per link. .
Lost Rs 16 lakh by falling prey to hoax…
After luring by the accused, on September 8, when he received a message on his Telegram ID about starting the task, he again participated in the online game. In this, after completing 14 tasks, 13 Instagram link follow tasks and one merchant prepaid task, Google Pay and online game task, the accused got Rs 16 lakh 33 thousand transferred from the girl’s account through mobile banking.
Investigation into the case continues…
After transferring the money, the amount or any commission was not returned to her, after which the accused demanded Rs 7.70 lakh for settlement, only then the girl realized that she had been cheated.
