Rs 16.17 lakh snatched from an elderly woman who runs a PG in Makarba: Caught by an investment advertisement in the stock market on Facebook, fraudsters cheated by showing a profit of Rs 17 lakh

A 74-year-old man living in Makarba, Ahmedabad and running a PG has been lured to invest in the stock market and give him more profits. The cyber thugger, posing as an agent of a proxtrend company, trapped the woman with telegram and mobile screen sharing. On the pretext of investing in stocks and gold, a total of Rs 16,20,197 was duped in Cuttack-Cuttack. The woman has lodged a complaint after she was informed of a cyber fraud by showing a profit of Rs 17 lakh in her account and later demanding more money in the name of income tax and holding fees to withdraw this amount. Seeing the investment advertisement, the website opened, trapped in filling in the details. A 74-year-old woman living in Makarba runs a PG. On May 5, while looking at Facebook, she saw an advertisement for investment in the stock market. By clicking on the link of this advertisement, the website opened. In which she filled her details in the registration form. The next day, she received a call from a person named Abhishek and he introduced himself as an agent of a proxtrend company. Abhishek contacted the Telegram ID and opened an account on proxtrend.com by sharing the screen in the old woman's mobile. After that, through Zoom video calls and Telegram, different UPI IDs. He deposited money on the pretext of buying shares. An elderly woman's fake account showed a profit of Rs 17 lakh. On May 25, Abhishek returned Rs 2800 of the profit to win the trust of the old woman. After the operation of the old woman's cataract, a person named Deepak contacted her from different foreign numbers from June 1 and asked her to operate the account and asked her to invest more in shares and gold and deposited large amounts in different UPI accounts. She deposited large sums of money in different UPI accounts. When the profit in the old woman's fake account was shown to be Rs 17 lakh and when he needed money, he asked Deepak to withdraw the amount. He grabbed Rs 16.17 lakh in the name of various charges. Later, a woman named Radhika and Bharti called and demanded Rs 1,55,000 as holding fee for the withdrawal, which was paid by the old woman. However, on September 23 and 24, a person named Dupada Ramakrishna called and demanded more money to pay Rs 5,00,000 as income tax to deposit the amount in the account. The elderly woman became suspicious of repeated demands in the name of charges under a new pretext and she came to know that it was an online fraud while talking to a girl named PG, which led to the complaint of fraud of Rs 16.17 lakh in cybercrime.