Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The South Division cyber crime are trying to track down a group of cyber frauds who cheated two people including a 44-year-old private firm employee luring them with high returns on online trade and made away with a total of Rs.56 lakhs.
The victim,Manoranjan Srivathsala,resident of JP Nagar 7th phase in his complaint said that the accused approached him through a message from a random number offering to invest on gold trade to get high returns in September last year.
When Mr.Manoranjan responded to the message on chat the accused sent him a link to register and start investing.
After a few time investment of small amount,he found the returns were good.When he tried to withdraw the amount,the accused informed him to invest a big amount for the withdrawal .
Unsuspecting Mr.Manoranjan invested Rs.19 lakh to find the profit was around Rs.2.3 crore excited by this when Manoranjan tried to withdraw the accused on the pretext of withdrawal charges,taxes and other fee and made him pay Rs.41.93 lakh and vanished .
After realizing that he has been duped Mr.Manoranjan approached the police on Friday and filed a complaint.
Similar incident occurred with Saritha Nair, 44,resident of Kanakapura road who lost Rs.15,86,037 to the fraud.
The accused approached her on the pretext of offering job for liking the online video to earn Rs.25 to Rs.50 per like.
When Ms.Saritha started showing interest the accused lured her into investing online trade for a quick returns and convinced her to invest.
As Soon as the investment Rs.15.86 lakh, the accused wound up the process and escaped .
A senior police officer advised people not to click any unverified links and respond the messages offering trading and online business.
