Noida, 9 December (Daily Kiran) – Cybercriminals have cheated an engineer of Rs 50 lakh by luring him with promises of high profits through share market investments. The fraudsters carried out the scam by adding the victim to a WhatsApp group and manipulating him into investing large sums.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime), Shaivya Goyal, stated on Tuesday that Rajendra Dogra, an engineer residing in Greater Noida West and currently working from home for a private company in Gujarat, received a call on 20 September from a man named Praveen Patel, who claimed to be a share market expert. Patel added Dogra to a WhatsApp group and began giving share market training. Initially, Dogra was persuaded to invest Rs 50,000. Within two days, he received Rs 9,000 in his account, which built his confidence in the accused.
Encouraged by this, Dogra gradually invested a total of Rs 50 lakh over 20 days as instructed by the scammers. When he later tried to withdraw the invested amount along with profits, the fraudsters stopped responding. Realising he had been cheated, Dogra filed a complaint on the NCRP portal.
The Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police confirmed that a case has been registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station and investigations are ongoing.
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(Daily Kiran) / Suresh Chaudhary
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