Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered against the unknown woman. (Figurative)
Gurugram:
An executive of a Gurugram-based consulting firm was defrauded of around Rs 38 lakh by a woman who befriended him through a matrimonial site, police said.
They said the victim was lured into investing in a cryptocurrency called deuncoin and was charged with various other charges.
An FIR has been registered at the Cyber โโCrime East police station, police said, adding that the accused will be arrested soon.
According to a complaint filed by consulting firm executive Naman Aggarwal, he met a woman named Ridhi Sharma through jeevansaathi.com in November 2023.
The woman claimed to have lived in London for the past five years and was originally from Calcutta. After talking for some time, he started liking her, Naman Aggarwal said.
"One day she lured me to invest in cryptocurrencies and created my trading account on the website m.deuncoin.vip. She sent the link to this website on WhatsApp and also contacted the customer support team of the trading platform via WhatsApp. .
โShe asked me to invest Rs 10 lakh initially and said she would transfer a similar amount to my trading account.
On December 20, the victim said that he received a message on WhatsApp from the Deuncoin customer support team that the amount transferred by Ridhi Sharma was an act of money laundering and was under the financial action scanner, and the group job asked him to deposit. a similar sum within 24 hours to restore the normal status of the trading account, warning that it would otherwise be frozen.
"I re-deposited Rs 10 lakh and asked them to withdraw my money. They forced me to transfer money in the names of different charges," the man said in his complaint.
Even after paying Rs 38 lakh, they kept demanding more money, which convinced him that the woman was involved in the entire "fraud", the man said.
The modus operandi was to first gain the man's trust and then make him a victim of financial fraud," Naman Aggarwal said.
Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered against the unknown woman and other fraudsters under Section 420 (cheating) of the IPC at the East Cyber โโPolice Station. A senior cyber police officer said that an investigation is underway and the accused will be arrested soon.
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