Online Investment Scam: A person should take any big decision only after thinking carefully. Often, when we get lured by something that looks attractive from outside, we end up doing something due to which we have to give up later. Something similar happened with a person from Chandigarh, who lost Rs 15 lakh in an investment scheme.

It is a matter of Chandigarh

Bhanu, a resident of Sector 14, first came to know about this scheme on June 3 through a telegram from a person named Prashant Shri. He claimed that he could help her earn money easily through a trading platform, where on an initial deposit of Rs 10,999, she would get returns of Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 per day.

gradually increased trust

Bhanu could not stop himself after hearing about this tempting offer. He immediately transferred the money. The surprising thing was that he immediately got back the profit of Rs 15,000. He felt that the scheme had some merit. Now he kept investing money again and again because he was confident.

This continued for the next few weeks and Bhanu deposited Rs 15.17 lakh through transactions, but now when the turn came to get profits, the story changed.

This is how I realized I was a fraud.

When Bhanu asked for the money back, Rs 2.44 lakh was taken from her in the name of ‘verification fee’. Bhanu did not argue much because she felt that she was going to get a huge amount, so she paid the money. But this time also when the money did not come, Bhanu started feeling that there was something black in the pulses. The apps and links which earlier showed great returns, all turned out to be fake.

When Bhanu realized that she had been defrauded, she lodged a complaint at the Cyber ​​Crime Police Station in Sector 17. At present, the bank accounts used in the fraud are being traced. The culprits have not been found yet.

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A woman from Greater Noida became a victim of an online fraud of Rs 51.50 lakh. Scammers lured him of huge profits in stock trading and showed him through a fake app that his investment was increasing rapidly. The woman was initially added to a WhatsApp group, where she was taken into confidence by giving Amazon gift voucher. This was then provoked for investment and when he imposed lakhs of rupees, the thugs broke into contact with him. The woman lodged a complaint with the cybercrime police, after which an amount of Rs 4.80 lakh has been freezed. The police is now trying to recover the rest of the money.

TOI of Report According to, the queen was initially added to a Whatsapp group, where she was told big profits stories. Meanwhile, a woman named Aarti Singh said that Hari Singh, the mentor of the group, has bought Amazon gift vouchers to help a needy. When the queen redeemed one of these rupees a voucher of Rs 1,000, her account actually got money.

Due to this reward, the queen’s trust was allegedly strengthened, after which the scammers said that if she would invest money in stock trading, it will get three to five times a month. The first Rs 50,000 was asked to invest, after which he was shown increasing their investment figure on an app.

The queen further told the police that when the initial investment showed profits, the queen borrowed millions of rupees in this scheme by borrowing from her husband, mother -in -law and relatives. But when he tried to borrow more money from an acquaintance, he felt cheated. As soon as he asked for his money back, the gang stopped contacting him.

The report states that according to Preeti Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Cybercrime Police, Rs 4.80 lakh has been freezed so far and investigation is going on for recovery of the remaining amount.