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Gurugram woman duped of Rs 2 cr in customs fraud

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Gurugram: A 61-year-old woman here was allegedly duped of Rs 2 crore on the pretext of customs clearance by a man she came in contact with on social media, police said.
The woman in her complaint alleged that in December 2022 she received a “follow request” from a person who introduced himself as a British Airways pilot, the police said.
“On December 5, he said he had a surprise package with gift items like i-phone, artificial jewellery, watch, accessories and cash and asked for my address and phone number,” she said in her complaint.

The fraudster said that he would send the package to the woman if she paid him Rs 35,000. After she paid the money, she received a call from another person posing as an airport authority official and was asked to pay a penalty of Rs 1 lakh, police said.
On the fraudster’s assurance of getting the penalty money back, she transferred Rs 95,000 and sometime later he again called the woman and asked me to pay another Rs 2 lakh for a certificate required for doing currency exchange from USD to INR and she again got cheated, they said
The fraudsters did not stop there, on December 9 she received an SMS from another number claiming to be from United Nations Anti-Terrorist Department’, saying that she had to get a clearance form for the package, for which she had to pay.
“I was forced to take a loan against all my jewellery with Muthoot Finance and scammers forced me to transfer that loan amount as well,” the woman said.
She transferred Rs 35 lakh from her account and also sold a plot to arrange for Rs 50 lakh more. She also borrowed Rs 24.5 lakh from her relatives, police said.

“I was asked then for more money so I withdrew money from my joint bank account with my son and when my son was alerted of the withdrawal, he called me to inquire. After that it was revealed that the whole story was a scam and the scammer duped me of almost Rs 2 crore,” the complainant said.
An FIR was registered against unidentified fraudsters under sections 419 (cheating by impersonation) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and section 66-D of the IT Act at the cyber crime police station, Manesar on Monday and a probe is underway, said Naresh Kumar, the investigating officer.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 11, 2023
Security guard duped of Rs 40,000 on pretext of being given work as ‘playboy’

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New Delhi: “Do you want to become a playboy and make quick money?” When Prakash, a security guard in Delhi, received this message from a girl he had come across on Facebook, he thought it was a good way to earn some extra bucks, unmindful that it could be a trap to extract money from him.
He readily agreed to pay the initial charges to get himself registered with a firm for the job. The girl initially asked him to pay Rs 1,000 as registration fee which he transferred from Paytm to a Standard Chartered bank account of a man.
By the time Prakash realised it was a trap and approached police, he had lost Rs 40,000.

A complaint was lodged at Shahdara police station, based on which an FIR was registered.
“Instead of offering me any playboy job, she again called me and asked me to pay some more money for other file formalities. I didn’t realise that she was fooling me and extracting money from one pretext or the other,” he said.
Prakash, a security guard in Anand Vihar in east Delhi, came in contact with the girl in March through Facebook. He said he saw a recruitment advertisement on Facebook and “clicked on the link. I provided my phone number and other details such as my present profile, etc.”
He immediately got a call from a girl who introduced himself as a resident of Defence Colony. “I was doubtful because the truecaller address showed that she was from Connaught Place but she convinced me that it was a genuine agency which hires men for playboy jobs,” he said, according to the police FIR.
A police officer said, “In the initial investigation, the police found out that the call was made from Nehru Place…. We are also trying to find out the account details to which he transferred the money.”

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 10, 2023
3 Iranians posing as cops duped Yemen national, held in Gurugram

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Gurugram: Gurugram Police arrested three Iranian nationals who allegedly posed as policemen and duped a Yemen national, police said on Monday.
The Yemen national visited India for his wife’s medical treatment in Gurugram.
The accused, who came to India on valid visas, were held from Delhi on April 5 and were taken on remand, police said.

The Iranian nationals have been identified as Hossein Rezaeifard, Marammad Hussain Peerfalak and Abdol Salam.
After investigating the accused, police learnt that the three used to target foreign nationals who were here for medical treatment.
Posing as police officials, the accused used to approach the foreign nationals by posing as police and ask for their wallets to check if they are carrying any narcotic substance, following which they used to escape with the money in the wallets.
In this case, the accused also duped the victim of 4300 (USD) and other documents. The victim told the police on January 15 he was on his way to the guest house when the trio posed as police officers, duped him and escaped the spot.
“The accused were professional criminals and committed three similar types of crime in Delhi and Gurugram. They arrived in India 5/6 months ago and committed the crime. The accused are taken on police remand for further probe,” Preet Pal Sangwan, ACP (crime) said.

(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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April 10, 2023