In the past few days, financial frauds have increased through social media. Like and subscribing to YouTube channels and earning money advertisement is also constantly seen on social media. In this scam, a fashion designer of Mumbai has been cheated of INR 10 lakh. The police have arrested two people in this case.
A complaint in this regard was received in the cyber crime police station of the Mumbai crime branch. The scam was done with the lure of a part-time job of liking and subscribing to a YouTube channel. Sumit Gupta (36), who works in a private company, and Partha Panchal (25), a Xerox machine repairer, were involved in this scam.
The 46-year-old fashion designer lives in Vileparle. She filed a police complaint on April 7. Based on her complaint, the police registered a case of fraud. The victim received a message on WhatsApp. The message contained an advertisement to earn money by subscribing to a YouTube channel. The girl who sent the message was called Divya. After receiving such a message on WhatsApp, communication between the victim and Divya (accused) started on Telegram.
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As the victim felt confident in this work, she started this work. As soon as she started the work, Divya asked her for her bank account details. Bank account information was requested to pay the amount for the work done. The money was also transferred to the victim's account as planned. After that, a link was sent and asked to create a profile there. So that the money from her work will be deposited in the online wallet on that link.
This is how the fraud happened
After gaining the trust of the victim, Divya forced her to invest in the business. She was promised 30 to 40 percent from this investment. So the victim started investing in this business. She also started getting profit from this investment. But, this profit was accumulating in her online wallet. Money could not be transferred from this online wallet to the bank account. When she contacted Divya regarding this, she demanded more money. At that time, the victim realised that he had been cheated. So the victim had invested INR 10.67 lakhs in this business. So she immediately rushed to the police station.
Money has been deposited in Divya's account and the police have succeeded in nabbing the two accused in this case. Partha Panchal was arrested by the Gujarat Police. Also, INR 6 lakh in the account of the accused has been frozen.
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