Vinod M Jain
The East Division police on Saturday registered an FIR against a conman who posing as customer offer to buy a sofa which was up for sale online from a 32-year-old software engineer and made away with ₹ 9.6 lakh .
Based on the complaint by victim,resident of HAL 2nd stage,the police charged the accused under IT Act a nd also under section 318(4)(through cheating, dishonestly induces another person to deliver property or create/alter/destroy a valuable security or anything convertible into one) of BNS for further investigation.
The complainant to the police,that she had posted an Ad in online marketing site (OLX) to sell two seater sofa for Rs.12,000 on July 7.
Few hours later a person identified himself as Mukesh (PH no-8602033764) contacted her that he is interested in buying sofa.
After inquiring about the price and negotiated a little before sealing the deal .
The complainant told him that she need some time and let him know date time to collect the sofa. Later in the evening he called me at 5:30 pm and told he will make advance token amount and the victim shared her mobile number which was linked to her bank account .
He asked me to transfer rupees 12,000 to him and remarks as all refund.Then he told this amount will be credited back to her account,which did not happen.
This same procedure repeated multiple times and money started debited a total amount of Rs.9,67,129 has been debited .
Shocked with the transacted she checked with the bank to find that the money has been transferred to four different accounts outside the state .
Police suspected that these money transacted to all the mule accounts which have been withdrawn and diverted to other accounts to withdraw .
The police advised people not to make any bank transactions with the unknown people and call 1930 cyber crime help line to report .
The police are now trying to track down the accused through money trail and call record details .
