For the last few months, new cases of cheating are coming up through social media, whose victims are mostly retired officers or elderly who do not know that social media. A similar case has come up from Vadodara in which a retired officer has been cheated by Rs 1.28 crore by luring more than double profit in the stock market.
Greed for profit of 2 crores on investment of 44 lakhs
The officer has lodged a complaint with the cyber police. The retired government official said that he used to invest in the stock market in advance but a few months ago, he was lured by contacting him on social media and lured him more profits. By contacting them through a website, more earnings were made by investing in contract trading and IPO.
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He got greed and shared the information of his bank accounts on the website, after which a woman contacted him and got the money transferred at different times. He was also shown a profit of Rs 2 crore in front of an investment of Rs 44 lakh, due to which he invested more and invested a total of Rs 1.28 crore.
Police engaged in investigation
For the first time, he raised a thousand rupees. Then when he went to withdraw more money, he did not get the money. When he contacted the woman, he asked for more money for investment. Then he got suspicious and filed a police complaint. Police say that on the basis of the complaint of the complainant, they investigated, in which their money has been transferred to 12 accounts. Investigations are being done by taking information from the bank about those accounts.
