Fraudsters cheat man of over Rs. 16 lakh
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Fraudsters cheat man of over Rs. 16 lakh

January 30, 2025

Mysuru: Fraudsters, on the pretext of supplying biogas equipment for lesser price have cheated a man of over Rs. 16 lakh in city.  

The fraudsters, who called the man over the phone, discussed about biogas business and told the man that he would supply biogas equipment for a lesser price. The fraudsters then told that man that he had to remit Rs. 16 lakh as advance for which he would be supplied with biogas equipment worth Rs. 36 lakh and also gave an offer of returning double the advance money he had remitted.

Believing it, the man transferred a total of Rs. 16.80 lakh in phases.

Later, the fraudsters stopped receiving the calls and had also stopped replying to the messages, following which a complaint was lodged at city’s CEN Police Station.

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