Yogesh K Porwar
T
he cyber crime police are on the lookout for man from Ranchi in Jharkhand who lured a city based private firm employee by offering high returns of Rs.7,500 in three days in an online share trading investment of Rs.25,000 before fleeing with a total sum of Rs.53.6 lakh.
The victim,Chethan Kumar KG,resident of Govindaraja Nagar working as analyst in health care company was checking online investment plans in November 2022 when he came across investment network website .
After initial inquires the accused identified himself as Digvijay Sarkar,working as investment banker and staying in abroad.He offered different schemes to invest in shares and offered quick and good sum of returns.
Excited by this Chethan Kumar made a initial investment of Rs.25,000 on November 2022 and within three days he got the returns of Rs.32,500 .
Impressed by this Chethan Kumar invested a total of Rs.53,64,220 through net banking between November 2022 to July 2024 from different bank accounts borrowing from family and friends to earn quick money .
As soon as the amount is paid,Chethan Kumar’s access was denied not he got any returns.He tried to call Sarkar who started giving him evasive replies stating that his account has been blocked .
This is the most common form of online trading racket where cyber frauds lure the victims with few thousand rupees of bait to make them invest more and more money .
The police advised people not to entertain unknown people who offer online trading business with higher returns .
