A cyber fraudster cheated a person from Bhopal of Rs 1.85 crore. The accused have created fake stock market trading accounts of reputed companies with the help of artificial intelligence. They commit fraud on social sites by promising to invest.
This is one of its first cases of fraud in the state capital. After receiving the complaint, Cyber Police has registered a case under 419, 420 IPC, 66 (C), 66 (D) IT Act. The police are investigating and nab the accused.
The fraud was committed between November 7, 2023 and January 14, 2024.
The victim received a call from an unknown number. He was told that he was talking to the customer care of Indra Securities. Later he was asked to join another WhatsApp group. After some time, he was sent a link and made him join the Telegram group. This group was described as India Securities.
To create confidence, a description of the company was written in this group along with the real photo of the Director of India Security. After gaining confidence, the complainant started investing in the shares of the company.
When he got good returns in many small investments, he took a loan of Rs 85 lakh and invested his savings of Rs 1 crore.
After this, the sale of shares started being stopped when in doubt, started talking to the group members. Admin stopped responding. Then he realized that he had been cheated. After this the matter was complained about.
After investigating the complaint made on January 19, the police registered the case. In the investigation so far, it has become clear that the entire incident was carried out by creating a fake profile of the company with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
Now the cases of online fraud are increasing in Bhopal. More than 10 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, while around 9 similar cases were reported on Wednesday, while more than 20 cases have been reported in the last 48 hours. This time online fraudsters targeted everyone from bank employees to students.
During this period, due to incomplete information, the accused extorted an amount of Rs 5 lakh from the victims.
