Mumbai Online Task Fraud: A case of online task fraud has come to light from a 37 year old female banker from Mumbai, in which the woman was defrauded to the tune of Rs 54 lakh. According to the police, the woman is a resident of Airoli and works in a bank in Malad. The woman was looking for a part-time earning, after which she fell into the trap of online task fraud.
Actually, on May 7, the woman received a message on WhatsApp. In this message a woman introduced herself as HR of an investment company. Along with this, the woman banker was also given the opportunity to do freelance work from home and was given the job of online rating and review of restaurants, in which an offer of Rs 100 to Rs 1000 was made. Not only this, a demo task was also done to convince the woman, due to which the woman got Rs 200 in her account.
How was the fraud done?
When the woman got Rs 200 in her account, she started believing. The person committing fraud shared a Telegram link with the woman and asked her to join the Telegram channel for further work. For this work he was asked to pay a prepaid amount of Rs 1000. The woman got a benefit of Rs 500 from this. After this, on May 8, the woman invested Rs 54 lakh 30 thousand in 11 transactions for prepaid task.
The woman had collected these Rs 54 lakh with great difficulty. Some of this money was the woman’s savings and some was taken as loan from her relatives. Later, when the woman talked about withdrawing her investment, she was asked to invest more money. Now the woman understood that she had been cheated. After this entire incident, the victim woman contacted the police and lodged a complaint against the accused. In the complaint, the woman gave contact number, link, Telegram account and bank account details to the police.
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