Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 1: Cyber Police Kashmir today said that in August this year, it received multiple complaints wherein complainants have been duped by fraudsters on the pretext of various attractive offers.
A complainant hailing from the remote area of Kulgam district was duped of an amount of Rs 7.57 lakhs by the Cyber scammers in an online trade scam.
“The complainant being a lone brother of four sisters had saved the said money to fulfil the marriage formalities of his sisters. The scammers came in contact with the complainant through social media and motivated him to invest his money in online trading, for which he was promised of hefty returns,” police said.
The victim, police said, got trapped in the scam and lost an amount of Rs 7.57 lakhs. The victim after losing his entire savings felt cheated by the online scammers and reported the fraud to Cyber Police Station Kashmir, Srinagar.
“The financial team of Cyber Police Station, Kashmir Srinagar acted swiftly on the compliant and after strenuous efforts managed to save the whole amount and the perpetrators were made to refund the said amount into the victim’s bank account.”
Moreover, police said, in OTP/Vishing fraud, KYC frauds and other trending scams, Cyber Police Station Kashmir, Srinagar successfully saved an amount of Rs 4,50,000 of gullible people.
The general public is once again advised not to believe individuals who contact in the name of investment/trade advisors for investing money in online trading. To get undue profits within short periods and don’t transfer any amount either online or through any other mode as they are entirely fake.
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