Dehradun: Cyber criminals use different methods to commit fraud. In one case, the criminals used Mukesh Ambani's video as a weapon to defraud a person of Rs 35 lakh. The criminals lured the person into investing money in trading and promised him profits worth lakhs and snatched away his hard-earned money in one go. The victim has filed a case against the criminals in the cyber crime police station. After filing the case, the search for the criminals has begun.
A Dehradun resident lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station and said that he is a businessman. One day he saw a video of Mukesh Ambani on Facebook. The video said that one can earn good profits by investing 22 thousand rupees. The victim needed money so he clicked on the video. After this, a website opened and a format appeared in it. After the victim filled the form, on 28 July 2024, a person named Mayank Maheshwari called from a WhatsApp number.
The person said that he is a financial advisor of Phoenix Trading Group and he asked for one lakh rupees to open an investment account. After the victim sent the money, the person said that his money will be invested in gold commodity. After that, a fake Reserve Bank mail came on the victim's email ID. In which it was told that you have made a profit of Rs 1 crore 57 lakh. In return, the cyber thugs asked the victim for Rs 34 lakh in the form of declaration fee, conversion fee and other fees. The victim also transferred Rs 34 lakh.
Even after this, different members of the thug gang kept pressuring the victim to deposit the money. After that, two people named Ishaan Chopra and Deepak Gupta from the trading group demanded three lakh rupees and said that after this your entire amount will come in the account. But due to lack of money in the victim's account, he could not send the money. After which the cyber thugs stopped picking up the phone.
Cyber CO Ankush Mishra said that based on the complaint of the victim, the police has registered a case against the unknown accused in the Cyber Crime Police Station and is investigating the matter. Also, the accounts in which the money has been transferred by the victim are being investigated.
