The Gurugram Police has arrested two persons, who were allegedly involved in duping a city-based man of Rs 11 lakh on the pretext of promotion of a (buildshopping.com) website. The culprits posed as tele-callers to con the complainant.
The accused were identified as Naresh Kumar and Neeraj Kumar and were arrested on May 16 from Delhi and Faridabad by the cyber crime team.
According to the police, lovit Sharma the victim, lodged a complaint at the Sector-56 Police Station on May 13 via e-mail. In his complaint, lovit said he had received a call in January from a man who identified himself as an employee of an online shopping website.
He claimed that lovit was chosen through a lucky draw and was entitled to a gift hamper that the company would be sending him shortly. The victim was asked to pay Rs 2,499 on receiving the hamper that would contain a headphone, sunglasses and a wallet.
"After a few days lovit got the items and he paid Rs 2,499. After some time the victim received another call from Niharika, who also claimed to be from buildshopping.com, informing him that if he participated in their schemes, he could win a Baleno car, gold worth Rs 3.5 lakh, bike, a led TV, laptop, Mobiles," the police said. later lovit was asked to deposit Rs 20,000 to participate in the lucky draw scheme. He deposited the said amount. After this, he received a couple of calls from different employees asking him to pay money on some pretext or the other. In all, he invested Rs 11 lakh in their fraudulent schemes.
After some time when he tried to call the 'employees', they gave lame excuses and later switched off their phones. lovit felt suspicious and filed a complaint against the
persons.
"We have arrested both the accused and recovered mobile phones, a laptop and a Walkie-Talkie set from their possession. The culprits were sent to judicial custody on Monday," Cyber Crime, Incharge, Inspector Anand Kumar Yadav, said.