Kept waiting for 2 lakhs by investing 1 lakh, the greed of huge returns made you a pauper, you should also be careful

Online Investment Scam: The incidents of online scams are continuously increasing in the country. These days scammers are targeting people through messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. Scammers are cheating people of money by giving them the pretext of job or by luring them to earn more money. They gradually gain the trust of the person and the victim does not even realize that he is being cheated. However, by the time they realise, it is too late and they have already lost a huge amount.

In a similar incident, a person from Mumbai was duped of Rs 1 lakh in the name of online investment scheme. According to a report in Times of India, a 27-year-old man living in Panvel, Mumbai was looking for investment plans on the popular messaging application Telegram. In the greed of getting huge return on investment, he got trapped in the clutches of fraudsters and lost lakhs of rupees.

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This is how fraud happened
According to the information, the scammers got the victim to register her personal information in a website in the greed of getting a huge return on investment. It is said that the victim had opened his account by giving information to the scammers on Telegram. After this he was asked to invest an amount of Rs 1,000 and instead a balance of Rs 1,620 was shown in his Telegram account. This made the victim believe that he had earned full Rs 620 on the investment.

In this greed, the victim got an amount of Rs 1 lakh deposited in that fake bank account, after which a balance of Rs 2.20 lakh started appearing in his Telegram account. However, when he tried to transfer the money back to his bank account, he could not do so. After this he realized that he had been cheated.

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Panvel Police has registered an FIR in this matter. Many such cases have come to the fore in the last few months, where people were duped of lakhs of rupees in the name of giving huge returns on online investments. Police say that people are becoming victims of fraud in the greed of earning more money in less time.

How to avoid this type of fraud?
The best way to stay safe from such scams is to never trust a stranger with your hard earned money. If you want to invest, take the help of a professional financial investor for this. Instead of looking up investment plans online, the best and safest way is to approach professionals.

The cases of scammers contacting people through WhatsApp and Telegram are increasing in the country. If you suspect a scammer on a message received from an unknown number, report it immediately and block it.

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