Railway engineer got cheated of 9 lakhs
Bilaspur. Railway Engineer got a call from an unknown number on his mobile and cheated him of Rs 8 lakh 97 thousand on the pretext of earning money by liking and subscribing to online videos. The case is of Civil Line police station area. Sarvesh Ranjan Pandey, a resident of Journalist Colony, father Shivshankar Pandey (30) is an engineer in the Railways. On March 25, a WhatsApp message came from an unknown number on his WhatsApp number. In that, told about the offer for part time job on YouTube.
It was said that Rs 50 per video would be given for liking the video. After this he was given a prepaid task. In this, it was said to deposit money in one to four installments and give some percent of the above amount along with profit on getting three installments. Sarvesh deposited Rs 5,000, Rs 3,000, Rs 10,700, Rs 5,000, Rs 25,000, Rs 87,000, Rs 3,20,000 and Rs 4,60,000 on the account numbers given in the message. After this, 8 lakh 97 thousand rupees were withdrawn from his account. Complained about this in cyber cell. Cyber Cell got hold of only Rs 2 lakh 38 thousand 361. On the complaint of the victim, the police have registered a case of cheating in this matter and started investigation.
