Fraud alert! Gurugram woman loses ₹76 lakh in app-based movie rating rip-off
After earn money by liking YouTube films rip-off, fraudsters have embrace a model new technique to dupe innocent residents. In a contemporary episode of cyber fraud, a female MNC authorities was allegedly duped of larger than ₹76 lakh by on-line frauds who promised her extreme returns on a element time job.
The job was straightforward. She was requested to cost movement photos on a mobile app, police acknowledged on Wednesday.
According to the grievance filed by Divya, the sufferer, she had made an account on a web-based app Bitmaxfilm.com and made various deposits of money.
The New Colony resident obtained a message from a woman named Meera on Telegram on February 25. Meera offered her a element time job.
Two days later, she started getting messages on WhatsApp from a woman who launched herself as Tejaswi. She instructed her that her job involved rating films on the app and requested her to register herself on Bitmaxfilm.com and start rating.
“The caller told me that I had to complete one set at least every day. Each set had 28 movies to be rated. To start rating, the account has to be recharged with ₹10,500 and I was told I could withdraw my money after the set is complete,” the sufferer wrote in her grievance, in keeping with police.
She was given an account amount to make deposits and start her work.
“While rating the tickets, I received a message on the platform that I have received a premium ticket and for this premium ticket I will have to deposit the negative balance, and if I don’t pay a negative balance, I can’t complete the set and the account will freeze,” be taught her grievance.
“I deposited ₹29,500 first, then again ₹82,541. They told me I had to complete 30 tickets because the level had increased. It again showed a negative balance of 5,48,658. I was asked again to deposit ₹9,59,357 to complete the final ticket. But later, I was told I had reached level 8 and I had to complete 35 tickets,” she wrote.
According to police, the girl was then requested to deposit ₹21,23,765. Agsin, she was given an assurance by scamsters that she could be able to withdraw all her deposits as quickly as she does that.
In all, the sufferer deposited ₹76,84,493 throughout the account on the app sooner than she realised she was duped, police acknowledged.
An FIR has been registered in opposition to unidentified frauds beneath sections 420 (dishonest) of IPC and half 66-D of IT Act at Cyber Crime, West, Police Station.
“We have registered a case and a probe is underway. The accused will be arrested soon,” acknowledged Station House Officer Amit Kumar.
(With inputs from PTI)
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