Pune: Cybercrooks duped a 42-year-old private company employee from Kiwale of Rs20.24 lakh in an online share trading fraud between April and June. The victim on Tuesday approached the Dehu Road police and filed a complaint.
After losing Rs 17.40 lakh to the crooks, the victim again fell prey to an advertisement about shares trading on a mobile messenger app and lost additional Rs 2.84 lakh, Dehu Road police said.
TNN We also published the following articles recently Another investment fraud rocks city, 19 people duped of 73 lakh Nineteen ex-servicemen were defrauded of Rs72.75 lakh in an investment scam between January and April 2023, where a fake cryptocurrency trading firm in Pune shut down after collecting their money. This incident followed another recent fraud in which 262 investors lost Rs26.
41 crore. A case has been registered against five individuals involved in the scam. Over 260 investors, mostly ex-servicemen, duped of 26 crore in share trading fraud A businessman and six others were booked by Mundhwa police for duping 262 investors, mostly ex-servicemen, of Rs26.
41 crore in a share trading scam from 2020-2024. The fraud was uncovered when the businessman shut down his office and disappeared. The case has now been transferred to the economic offences wing for further investigation.
Mumbai salon owner scammed of Rs 1.4 crore by fraud share trading scheme A 49-year-old salon owner in Mumbai named BB Raja was deceived by a couple who swindled him out of Rs 1.4 crore.
Introduced by a cooperative bank manager, Raja invested in share trading but never received his promised returns. The police are investigating the account details to which the money was diverted..
