Cybercriminals have defrauded two Navi Mumbai residents out of a total of Rs 2.62 crores by employing various methods of operation to defraud their victims financially.
The cybercriminals, posing as Enforcement Directorate officers and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) officials, defrauded a 56-year-old homemaker and her husband in Kharghar of Rs 1.28 crores, while a 72-year-old man from Koparkhairane was defrauded of Rs 1.34 crores in a stock market trading scam.
The con artists threatened the couple with legal action, alleging that their bank accounts had been used for money laundering and that they had been tricked into transferring money to a bank account by the Reserve Bank of India on false pretenses of verifying their bank account.
Two separate FIRs were filed at the Navi Mumbai cybercrime cell on Saturday after the victims submitted an online complaint with the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCCRP).
The senior citizen from Koparkhairane said in his complaint that between August 1 and September 13, he was tricked by online scammers. He received an offer of significant returns for investing in Upper Circuit Stock, IPOs, and online bulk stock trading on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India.
He was admitted to the’m.Stock Customer Service 906-YG1W’ WhatsApp group, where he received advice from three group administrators about purchasing stock and was guaranteed huge returns.
He was forced to download the “m.Stock by Mirae” app, which practically showed his investment earnings, as he progressively invested by transferring Rs 1,33,46,000 to a bank account supplied by the group moderators.
When he attempted to transfer his profit to his bank account in September, he was unsuccessful. He was advised to invest additional money when he questioned the group administrators and the app’s owner after realizing he had been duped and filing a complaint with NCCRP.
However, according to the Kharghar homemaker’s complaint, on August 15, her husband received a WhatsApp call from someone named Rahul Verma on his mobile device. Verma pretended to be a TRAI representative and stated that her spouse had engaged in criminal activity.
After that, Verma’s assistants pretended to be ED officers and called her husband on Skype, informing him that he was the target of a criminal complaint for sending derogatory communications, engaging in unlawful advertising, and laundering money through the use of their bank accounts.
In order to avoid taking further legal action and having them arrested, the crooks forced the couple to transfer the entire Rs 1.28 crore in savings from their bank accounts to a bank account they provided, saying that this was necessary for RBI verification and guaranteeing that the money would be refunded to their bank accounts once the verification process was finished.
The couple was unable to communicate with the Skype callers and WhatsApp caller Verma when they attempted to revert the amount till August 20. As a result, the housewife complained online to NCCRP.
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