INVC NEWS
Bilaspur : Even after hundreds of cases of online fraud have come to light, people are still falling prey to fraudsters. In the greed of huge profits, a retired employee of the education department fell prey to online fraud of Rs 80 lakh. Cyber cell has again registered a case on his complaint. Virendra Kumar Devangan (63 years) of Bajpai Castle in Mangala, Bilaspur is retired from the education department. He received a call from an unknown number, who introduced himself as the CEO of Life Insurance Company Hyderabad.
The caller told that the amount you have invested in insurance has been put in equity by your agent, due to which you are suffering a huge loss and the profit is going to the agent’s account. If you remove the agent’s name and code and put your name, then the profit will come to your account. Virendra Kumar Devangan had fallen prey to the caller’s trap. During this, in the name of removing the code, the alleged ‘Swabhiman’ of the life insurance company first deposited Rs 22,700 online in an account.
After this, he gradually collected 78 lakh 85 thousand rupees in the name of GST charge, TDS charge, service charge etc. After this, the caller could not be contacted. His phone started showing switched off. On realizing that he was cheated, Virendra Kumar lodged a report in the cyber police station. The police have registered a crime against the unknown fraud under section 420 of IPC, section 66 D and 34 of cyber crime.
