Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 29 August 2025
A lady from Diglipur has reported a serious case of on-line monetary fraud, dropping ₹8.48 lakh after falling prey to a faux inventory market funding scheme run by a WhatsApp group.
As per the FIR lodged on the Cyber Crime Police Station, the incident started on March 6, 2025, when the Diglipur lady joined a WhatsApp group named “ICICI Securities Group Y4.” The group claimed to supply inventory market funding steerage. She was instructed to open an ICICI All-in-One buying and selling account and obtain the ICDirect software. After finishing KYC, she was suggested to deposit cash for buying and selling beneath the supervision of an “investment advisor.”
Initially, she didn’t make investments. However, one Ms. Vinita Pathodia, posing as an assistant within the group, persistently inspired her. Other members within the group additionally shared screenshots of income, additional convincing her. Before making her first deposit, she personally contacted 4–5 group members, all of whom replied positively and urged her to speculate.
On April 10, 2025, she made her first deposit of ₹40,000. She was allotted faux shares, together with IFGL Refractories Limited, which confirmed a right away “profit” of ₹51,380. Believing the scheme to be real, she step by step invested a complete of ₹8,48,000.
According to the faux ICICI buying and selling portal proven to her, her portfolio mirrored a large worth of ₹1.45 crore. But when she tried to withdraw ₹8 lakh, she was informed her account had “abnormal activity” and that she would want to deposit an extra ₹14 lakh to allow withdrawals.
Realizing she had been duped, the sufferer filed a criticism on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal earlier than formally approaching the police. She additionally supplied six cell numbers utilized by the fraudsters.
Police have registered a case beneath sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
