Bengaluru, Two individuals have complained to the police right here that they’ve collectively misplaced about ₹95 lakh to cyber fraudsters after they fell prey to pretend movies allegedly that includes two high businessmen. In each the instances, the complainants did not verify the authenticity of the alleged movies and ended up clicking some suspicious hyperlinks which led them to pretend web sites created by fraudsters to cheat individuals and generate profits on guarantees of giving them greater returns, they stated on Monday. “As per the complainants, only after investing in these social media platforms they realised that the alleged videos featuring Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani were used to get them to suspicious links and without any due diligence on their part, they ended up investing only to realise that they were cheating using fake videos of such personalities,” a senior police officer stated. Within the first case, a resident of Banashankari right here got here throughout a video selling a buying and selling platform promising excessive returns on investments, police stated. In accordance with the lady, she clicked the hyperlink on some suspicious wanting web site and shared her particulars with the alleged platform. Later, she acquired a name from the an unidentified man, claiming to be an agent related to the alleged platform convincing her to make investments for greater returns. Initially, she invested round ₹1.4 lakh and obtained returns of ₹8,000 and when she invested ₹6.7 lakh from the second time, she didn’t get any returns and misplaced the invested quantity as nicely, a senior police officer stated. In an identical method, she additionally obtained cheated of ₹67 lakh with one other platform, police stated. Within the second case, a retired worker fell sufferer to a video on a social media platform selling a buying and selling platform promising greater returns on investments, the officer stated. He misplaced ₹19 lakh after he transferred the quantity to 2 totally different financial institution accounts shared by the alleged fraudsters. However as soon as the quantity was transferred, he didn’t get any response, he stated. “It could also be so that the fraudsters must have used videos of these personalities which was meant for their general body meetings or for stakeholders and misused the same to cheat gullible people. Trusting the alleged videos, they landed in trouble by clicking on such fake websites created by fraudsters to trap gullible people,” the officer stated. Two separate instances have been registered at CEN South police station and an investigation is underway to trace the culprits concerned within the rip-off, police stated.
Two Bengaluru residents lose ₹95 lakh to cyber fraudsters