Ravishankar, residing in the SIDCO area in Coimbatore and working in the IT sector lodged a complaint with the Cybercrime police after he allegedly lost Rs 32 lakh in just six days by clicking on a dubious link on the Telegram app, evidently for doing a part-time job.
Coimbatore: Cybercrime crimes are on the rise by the day. Even though awareness about the pitfalls of these online crimes has been created and measures are taken to prevent such crimes, the numbers have not come down. It has become a common practice for even educated youth to fall prey to such fraudsters and bogus operators. who is slyly operating in cyberspace
Shockingly enough, a city youth, who had clicked on a link on the Telegram app, which dubiously offered a part-time job had lost Rs 32 lakh of his own money in just six days.
Ravishankar, who hails from SIDCO in Coimbatore, works in a software company. He thought of doing a part-time job to earn more money. In the meanwhile, a dubious link in the Telegram app caught his eye, which advertised that it was a site for rating tourist destinations.
The site, though was named after famous tour operators from the USA had proved a bogus one. At first, RaviShankar approached the company by chatting in Telegram and he was engaged by staff from the Bangalore branch office of the dubious company.
Ravi Shankar was told that all he had to do was to rate the tourist sites and the work could be done from home.
Unaware that he was taken for a ride Ravishankdar worked for six days. The company had also demanded him to pay Rs.10,000 per site, promising to return Rs.11,000. Thus he was made to believe that Rs.1000 profit can be made for every RS.10,000 spent.
Despite the youth dishing out a good Rs 32,23,909 from his pocket, and giving star ratings, to tourist destinations on a large number of sites, not a single penny was paid back to him. Worse still, the chat in the Telegram app was also deleted..
Realising that he was cheated, Ravishankar lodged a complaint with the City Cyber Crime Police. Based on the complaint, the police had registered a case and were trying to freeze the bank accounts of online scammers to start with. Further investigations were going on.