The 47-year-old private employee was recently added to a Telegram group by unidentified persons, where he was contacted by a woman claiming to show huge returns for investment in ‘Bitcoins’ and also offered him guidance and tips for the same.
The victim had posted an advertisement on ‘Quikr App’, and received a call from a person who claimed to be working with the army. The man told the woman that his accountant will get in touch with her for further transactions.
The student was searching to buy avocados online and came across a supplier from Vijayawada. However, he was instead contacted by cyber fraudsters who claimed to be representatives of the fruit export company
The complainant received a message on his WhatsApp stating that loans would be sanctioned at a very low interest rate within a couple of hours, subject to eligibility
The fraudsters made the victim transfer the money within ten days under the pretext of registration, security deposit, no-objection certificate, etc., promising to provide a Kia Motors dealership.
The farmers Jillela Mohan from Bheempur mandal, Nakkala Jagadish of Thantoli, Nagubai belonging to Chinchughat, Ashamma from Arli (T), Jalala Venkati and Jagadamba fertilizers thanked the superintendent for striving hard to recover Rs 8 lakh illegally diverted by an employee of the postal department to his account in 2024.
The advisory was issued after the fraudsters adopting the modus operandi, conned an accounts department executive into transferring huge sum of amounts to an account
The 72-year-old complainant recently received a message on WhatsApp from her sister-in-law's mobile number, who resides in New Jersey, USA. The message requested an amount
After sending a few documents, the scamsters conned the woman into transferring the amount from her bank accounts to some other accounts provided by them.
A 67-year-old man from the city, who was searching for the customer care number of a popular brand to get his air-conditioner repaired, ended up being scammed by cyber fraudsters and lost Rs 1.9 lakh