AHMEDABAD: A bank employee on Wednesday filed a complaint with Cybercrime police alleging that cybercriminals cheated him out of Rs 16.34 lakh between Dec and Jan after promising him “extra income doing part time jobs”. Vimesh Shah, 54, a resident of ICB Flora Flats in Gota, is a loan manager for a private bank.
Shah said that on Nov 13, he received a message on Telegram from an unknown person offering him a part-time job.
As Shah responded positively to it, he got a message asking if he wanted to work part-time or full-time and was offered lucrative returns on making an ‘investment’.
Shah agreed and was added to a Telegram channel where a woman known as “Ananya Patel” told him to do some work on flight bookings. He did and received his first payment of Rs 800.
Convinced that this ‘work’ was genuine, Shah ‘invested’ more to get better returns. He was made to log into a web portal which showed his “virtual balance”.
Shah said he paid Rs 16.34 lakh in nine transactions between Dec 25, 2023, and Jan 1, 2024. Shah said a man named Rahul Sharma was pressuring him to invest more money. When he sought to withdraw his ‘earnings’, he was told to pay 50% of that sum. This raised suspicions and Shah finally realized that he had been cheated. He filed a complaint on the cybercrime helpline and later with city police. Cybercrime police registered a complaint of breach of trust, cheating and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code along with charges under the Information Technology Act against unknown persons.
Shah said that on Nov 13, he received a message on Telegram from an unknown person offering him a part-time job.
As Shah responded positively to it, he got a message asking if he wanted to work part-time or full-time and was offered lucrative returns on making an ‘investment’.
Shah agreed and was added to a Telegram channel where a woman known as “Ananya Patel” told him to do some work on flight bookings. He did and received his first payment of Rs 800.
Convinced that this ‘work’ was genuine, Shah ‘invested’ more to get better returns. He was made to log into a web portal which showed his “virtual balance”.
Shah said he paid Rs 16.34 lakh in nine transactions between Dec 25, 2023, and Jan 1, 2024. Shah said a man named Rahul Sharma was pressuring him to invest more money. When he sought to withdraw his ‘earnings’, he was told to pay 50% of that sum. This raised suspicions and Shah finally realized that he had been cheated. He filed a complaint on the cybercrime helpline and later with city police. Cybercrime police registered a complaint of breach of trust, cheating and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code along with charges under the Information Technology Act against unknown persons.