Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 19 June 2025
A resident of Buniyadabad has fallen sufferer to a classy on-line funding rip-off, shedding a complete of ₹93,000 to cyber fraudsters working by means of the Telegram messaging app.
According to a grievance filed on the Cyber Crime Police Station, the incident started on April 24 when the sufferer acquired a message on Telegram from an unidentified consumer. The message supplied “demo trading tasks” that promised earnings from on-line investments. After finishing ten such demo duties, the sufferer was launched to a different consumer, who persuaded him to speculate a small quantity and promised fast returns.
Trusting the method, the complainant initially transferred ₹2,000 through Google Pay, which was adopted by communication with one other Telegram consumer, who posed as a receptionist. She requested private and monetary info, together with UPI and checking account particulars. Shortly afterward, small quantities of ₹150 and ₹3,000 have been credited to the sufferer’s checking account — a typical tactic utilized by fraudsters to construct belief.
The sufferer was then launched to a supposed “Cboe Task teacher” named Sanjay Sharma by means of Telegram. This particular person guided the complainant to an internet site titled Global India, the place he was requested to submit private particulars together with an invite code. As a part of the scheme, the sufferer made one other cost of ₹5,000, lured by the promise of receiving ₹7,500 in return.
The complainant was ultimately added to a Telegram group the place he was urged to make bigger investments. Over the subsequent few days, he made a number of funds totalling ₹93,000 through Google Pay, with no returns ever materialising.
Realizing he had been deceived, the sufferer filed a report by means of the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal on April 29. The case has now been formally registered below related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and investigation has been taken up by the Cyber Crime Police Station.
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