Yogesh K Porwar
The South Division cyber crime police have registered a case against unknown person who posing as prospective bride cheated a 41-year-old man luring him into investment and made away with Rs.73.7 lakh.
Based on the complaint filed by victim,from Banashankari,the police have charged the accused under IT act and also under section 318(4) (offence of cheating and dishonestly inducing the delivery of property) and 319(2) ( Cheating by Personation) of BNS for further investigation.
The complainant,on March 16,met the accused identified as Shreya Sharma on a matrimonial website and exchanged contact numbers.
The accused proposed to marry him and lured him into online trading as she herself is doing it and earning a huge margin of profit.
Swayed away by sweets talks the complainant agreed to invest and since March to June this year invested a total of Rs.73.7 lakhs of his saving in different dates on the websites she had introduced .
The cheating came to light when the complainant realized that Shreya was asking him to invest more and more but there is no way to accessing his trading account nor have option to withdraw the profits.
The complainant discussed this with his friends and realized that he had been cheated and raised a complaint on 1930 before approaching the police.
According to the police this is not the first case as recent modus operandi employed by fraudsters is to create fake profiles on matrimonial platforms,gain people trust by posing as prospective brides and grooms,and later introduce their targets to fraudulent high-return investment and cheat them.
Two such cases have been reported in East Division cyber crime police station as a bank employee and a owner of a second hand bikes showroom lost lakhs of rupees .
This is happening because people who being educated lured by unknown people online whom they have not even met and agreed to invest their hard earned money without doing any background checks and seek expert opinion, a senior officer, said .
