Engineer loses Rs. 1,19,960 to fraudster

Mysore/Mysuru: A miscreant, in the guise of Army personnel, has cheated a house owner of Rs. 2.40 lakh online on the pretext of giving him advance for the house.

The house owner is H.S. Chandan, a Software Engineer and a resident of Hebbal 2nd Stage in city. Chandan had advertised about giving his house on rent on a website and the miscreant, who contacted Chandan, identified himself as Deepak, serving in the Indian Army.

Deepak, who showed interest in taking the house on rent, told Chandan that he would transfer the advance amount online and collected the Bank account details of Chandan. He then illegally transferred Rs. 2.40 lakh from Chandan’s Bank account.

A case has been registered at City’s CEN Police Station.

Mandya: In another online fraud case reported from Mandya, a 25-year-old Engineer has been cheated of Rs. 1,19,960 by a miscreant after luring the Engineer to invest in crypto currency with a promise of high returns.

The Engineer, who was cheated is K. Sushma, a resident of Karimegalakoppal village in K.R. Pet.

Sushma, who came across an Instagram page which offered 11 times more profit for the invested amount on crypto currencies, called the mobile phone number mentioned in the page. The person, who received the call, told her that the page has been recognised by the Government and the business was being conducted as per the law. Believing him, Sushma transferred Rs. 20,000 through Google Pay to the number sent be the miscreant.

A few days later, Sushma received a message which stated that she had got Rs. 3.57 lakh profit for her invested money. The message also contained the account details of one Sanjaykumar and Sushma was told to deposit Rs. 99,960 GST charges to the account so that the profit could be deposited to her Bank account.

After Sushma transferred Rs. 99,960, she received a message on her Instagram, which stated that as there was a delay in depositing the money, the profit amount has been deposited to the account of the investor and asked her to deposit Rs. 99,960 again. But when Sushma replied saying that she does not have that much amount now and asked to return her invested amount and Rs. 99,960, which she had deposited. But she received a message which stated that her amount could be deposited only if she deposits the GST charges.

Sushma, who came to know that she has been cheated, has lodged a complaint at Mandya CEN Police Station.