Retired Ahmedabad resident duped of ₹93 lakh through social media, crypto tasks
Updated: Dec 3rd, 2024
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A retired resident of Ahmedabad became a victim of a cybercrime network, losing ₹93 lakh in the process.
As per a complaint filed on Monday, 64-year-old Krishnamohan Chakrapani, a resident of Ambawadi’s Bhudarpura Road vicinity, was given online tasks by a bogus firm. Chakrapani was asked to conduct these tasks on Instagram, as well as a few related to cryptocurrency.
It all began when Chakrapani received a text on his WhatsApp from an unknown person named ‘Ananya’ on November 19, 2023, offering him a work-from-home opportunity.
As he sent an affirmation text for this offer, Chakrapani was redirected to Telegram. He was added to a channel with the handle @Kapoor252545.
Thereafter, a person named Alisha Kapoor handed him Instagram tasks to complete.
He was tasked to join Instagram, where he was added by a user named Aditya Gupta with the ID ‘foodie_aditya’. Similarly, he was allocated tasks involving other users.
He was then asked to send screenshots of his completed tasks, for which he received ₹90 each. The money he made through these tasks was also reflected in his profile.
He was also asked to share his account details by the perpetrators.
Alisha redirected him to conduct further tasks and connected him to another person named Rahul Agrawal through Telegram.
Agrawal handed Chakrapani a few cryptocurrency tasks and asked him to log into a specific link.
While conducting those tasks, his account was frozen abruptly. Claiming that your profits would be lost, Rahul asked for a hefty amount from Chakrapani to unfreeze the account.
He was then connected with an individual named Arpit Singhal, who claimed to be the CEO and director of the firm.
He asked for a security amount of ₹76 lakh to safeguard the deposits and profits he had earned, which he promised would eventually be returned to him.
He was asked by a person claiming to be the ‘senior controller’ of this firm to deposit the amount in different accounts.
Following this, Chakrapani made transactions amounting to a total of ₹93.86 lakh in 19 different bank accounts.
Upon neither being returned his deposited amount nor the promised profits, Chakrapani lodged a complaint before the Cyber Crime Police Station.
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