Pramesh S Jain
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fter losing Rs.90 lakh to a gaming app in two years,a 37-year-old software engineer filed a complaint against a gaming app with the East Division Cyber Crime Police seeking legal action.
Based on the complaint filed by victim resident of commercial street,the police have registered a case against unknown people charging them under IT act and also under section 318 (4) (cheating and fraud that involves the dishonest inducement of property delivery) of BNS on Friday for further investigation .
In his complaint, victim said,he was introduced to the gaming app by his friend in June 2023 asking him to invest and play in the app to get good returns .
He also shared a link following which he opened the link through google it connected to the website “Namma Exchange”the link was nammaexchange.com and created user id and password .
The complainant said that in the “Namma Exchange” site there were options to play online betting for cricket, Football, Casino,Teenpatti,cash&crash,including many more games where the user can bet on the games and get good profit if they win.
To access online betting app the user supposed to recharge our account to deposit the amount they would provide individual bank account number and name for transactions.
The victim deposited ₹10,000 started to play and bet on casino and earned ₹ 40,000 on the same day but it was a trap that he realized later .
Excited by this he transferred transferred ₹50 Lakhs from his salary saving while ₹40,000 which he had won through betting was credited to his account from the application.
Since the complainant working from home and had lot of free time he started investing more and more money to pay games and lost the amount .
The complainant informed the police that after losing the amount, he consulted his friend, who advised him that it is a normal to lose money initially to gain later and advised him to invest more to recover the loss amount.
Based on his advise he invested ₹50 lakh more from his savings to play the same game and lost the amount only to recover ₹10 lakh as profit .
Depressed over the loss and losing all this hard eared saving,the complainant decide to earn back all the money and tok personal loan from Bajaj finance for ₹35 lakh and ₹ 5 lakh from a private bank and started to play every day from June 3 2023 till March 6, 2025 and lost all the amount..
During this process,the complainant distressed and shared the details of the account and the App to realize application is not registered in India and this application is in not in google play store or apple store.
The amount earned after winning the game would directly credited to my bank from some individual accounts and through genuine payment gateway routed through UK .
The complainant requested the police to verify APP account number and take legal action against to recover my lost amount.
The legal action against the App is needs to taken immediately since it is still active and several people like him losing the money in lakhs, he said in his complaint.
