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Mumbai Crime: Software engineer loses over Rs 1.50 lakh to cyber fraud
Updated On: 01 February, 2023 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
He got a text about investment and was lured to make payments; cops find server to the link is in China
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The software engineer was allegedly told that he would get a return of Rs 1,500 on every Rs 5,000 he spent. Representation pic
A chief engineer in a leading software company fell for a text message about an investment recently, and ended up losing Rs 1,57,000. He filed a complaint with the Marine Drive police who lodged an FIR on Sunday.
The complainant, a Marine Drive resident, said he fell for the message and clicked on a link sent with it. He has alleged that he was given some tasks to complete a form on a website, and while completing the tasks, he was asked to make some payments. The software engineer was allegedly told that he would get a return of R1,500 on every Rs 5,000 he spent. But as per his statement, later the tasks never got completed and he kept paying money assuming that he would get money in return. The police suspect that the website has its origins in China and has been orchestrated to lure Indians, like in the loan app fraud.
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