The couple are residents of Indirapuram, Ghaziabad.
The woman made 22 transactions to different bank accounts in July and August.
Fraudsters are continuously trying to find innovative ways to dupe people of their money. Recently, residents of Indirapuram Ghaziabad allegedly lost over Rs 3 crore in a cyber fraud after the couple got lured into a fake investment opportunity through online advertisements on Facebook. The wife filed a complaint with the police regarding the cyber fraud. Nabanita and Mrinal Mishra are residents of Indirapuram, Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. Recently, Nabanita Mishra filed an FIR at Ghaziabad’s Cyber Crime Police Station and claimed that she and her husband lost Rs 3.1 crore to cyber fraud. She alleged that the couple made 22 transitions to various bank accounts between July and August, thinking they were engaging in stock trading.
As per the complaint, Nabanita Mishra chanced upon an advertisement on Facebook and she clicked on it. After this, she was added to a WhatsApp group, which claimed to be run by a popular investment platform that is renowned for offering trading services. As per the complainant, the administrator was identified as Rajat Chopra who encouraged the members of the group to participate in a competition called GTC that promised great returns.
The complainant further claimed that she paid initially a monthly subscription of Rs 2,000 for the investment advice and then she was convinced to make transitions for shares and IPO investments as well. These transfer details were shared by a number that the company claimed to be theirs. As per Nabanita, the company also offered authentic SEBI registration details and on the WhatsApp group, they would share details of their transactions and profits earned.
Further, the complainant added that the company loaned her Rs 80 lakh for one of the IPO transactions. When she tried to access her account, she was notified to repay her debt. To do so, she mortgaged her late father’s fixed deposit amounts. Finally, she was able to access her account and check the details of her investments and profits in the company’s app, but there was a twist. She could not access the money and was instead asked to pay the tax. She got suspicious when she tried to invest in the IPOs through different platforms and could not do so. The company informed her that it had international status and generally traded in high volumes of upper circuit blocks.
She tried to dig up about cyber fraud and came across the details of the company she was engaging with for her investments. When she tried to reach the numbers on the WhatsApp group, they were all unreachable. The numbers were reportedly registered in Rajasthan.
