Pretend Lodge Score Job Rip-off: Minnie Bay Girl Loses Over ₹21 Lakh

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 20 August 2025

A Minnie Bay resident has been defrauded of greater than ₹21 lakh after falling prey to a cyber rip-off that promised profitable earnings for finishing on-line resort ranking duties.

According to the FIR filed on the Cyber Crime Police Station on 14th August 2025, the girl got here throughout a Facebook commercial on August 3 from a web page known as Nexustechnology.com. The advert claimed people might earn between ₹30,000 and ₹50,000 by giving 5-star scores to motels. When she clicked the hyperlink, she was contacted on Telegram by an account named @Kunal6952, which dealt with her “verification” and defined how the system labored.

She was quickly added to a Telegram group named Nexustechnology, the place she was assigned duties. After finishing preliminary duties, she invested ₹5,000, and shortly thereafter, ₹6,500 was credited to her ICICI Bank account — a deliberate transfer by the fraudsters to win her belief.

The lady was then requested to hitch one other group, Nexustechnology Premium, which required a becoming a member of price of ₹1.34 lakh. Believing she would achieve greater returns, she transferred the quantity. After this, she was repeatedly requested to make additional funds for finishing duties, unlocking bonuses, and enabling withdrawals.

Between August 3 and August 7, she transferred a complete of ₹21,15,678 by way of UPI, NEFT, and RTGS to a number of financial institution accounts throughout ICICI, HDFC, SBI, Canara Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, Federal Bank, Central Bank of India, and even wallets like Mobikwik. Despite repeated funds, she was denied entry to withdraw her supposed earnings. When extra money was demanded, she realized it was a rip-off.

She instantly reported the matter on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (complaints registered on August 9 and 10) earlier than submitting an FIR. Police have booked the case beneath Sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.