Surat: A 71-year-old retired chemical engineer has been cheated of Rs 1.85 crore by cybercrooks in Surat. The victim was lured with promises of good returns on investments in the share market.
According to a complaint, Pal resident Anilkumar Damari Singh received in Feb 2024 a WhatsApp message luring him with good returns in share market trading. He was sent a link ‘vikinginvestors.top’ for registration. Singh opened the link and registered on the Viking-Indian app after filling in the details.
He was then added to a WhatsApp group, Viking Global Invest c29. Admin Kiran Kaur would share various share trading-related messages on the group. On Feb 20, Kaur sent a message, saying that they were starting online share trading classes, and she would send a link for that. After she sent the link, Singh learned trading by online mode.
Meanwhile, Singh started receiving tips on the group and he began transferring money to different bank accounts given to him. Singh transferred a total of Rs 1.95 crore from Feb 19 to April 10 to 25 different bank accounts. During the process, he was allowed to withdraw Rs 5 lakh on March 1 and another Rs 5 lakh March 7.
On April 18, when he went to his bank to withdraw his money, the bank informed him that cybercrime police in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Karnataka and Nagpur had marked a lien on the money in his bank account.
Then Singh informed this to Kaur and asked her for the withdrawal of his money. However, Kaur demanded Rs 70 lakh as tax for the withdrawal. Singh told her to deduct the tax and return the remaining money, but Kaur kept insisting on Rs 70 lakh.
Realising that he had been cheated, Singh called cybercrime helpline ‘1930′ and registered a complaint. Based on that complaint, an FIR was filed by Cybercrime police of Surat on Tuesday.
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