A 75-year-old Panchkula resident was deceived online for Rs 9.10 lakh
A con artist acting as a cousin defrauded a 75-year-old Sector 25 resident of Rs 9.10 lakh.
After retiring from his position as superintendent of HSEB, Panchkula, Ram Kanwar Dalal said that on April 1, he got a WhatsApp contact from someone claiming to be Rocky, a cousin from Melbourne, Australia. The caller said that he would want to transfer Rs 9.10 lakh to Dalal’s bank account, with the intention of using the money to pay his buddy for his mother’s medical expenses.
After getting his bank account information, the individual gave him a receipt for a Rs. 9 lakh transaction. Additionally, while the transaction was still pending, he instructed him to give his buddy the money.
Dalal visited the bank and, in accordance with the information given to him, deposited Rs 4 lakh into two bank accounts.
After then, the complainant started receiving calls from the imposters, who would repeatedly beg for money under various pretexts. Dalal was even given the notion that the first callers were telling the truth when they said they were from the bank and that they had called him to find out why such large amounts of money had been sent to his bank account.
Afterwards, he used RTGS to deposit an additional Rs 5.10 lakh into their accounts.
When the money from overseas did not arrive, he subsequently got in touch with Rocky’s parents. Then he discovered that crooks had conned him out of Rs 9.10 lakh.
At the city’s cybercrime police station, a case has been filed under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing handover of property), and 120-B (party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offense punishable with death) of the IPC. It is the subject of an inquiry by the police.
