Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Lasudia police registered a case against unidentified accused for duping about 17 people on the pretext of providing jobs, refunding money through UPI and sending fire brigade to the firm and so forth in a span of three months, the police said on Monday. The case was registered against the mobile number callers and investigations are under way to identify them.
Police station-in-charge Santosh Dudhi said Yogesh Yadav, a resident of Sejwaya, in Dhar district, lodged a complaint stating that he was duped of Rs 50,000 by a conman who assured him that he would provide him a good job in a company. The conman sent him a link and told him to make a payment of Rs 10. When the complainant made the payment, he found that Rs 50,000 had been deducted in two instalments. He lodged a complaint with the police. Yogesh had come to the city to meet a relative when the accused duped him.
Another complainant, named Nilesh, received a call from a person who said he would help him to return his money on an e-commerce site. He confirmed his UPI ID and managed to steal Rs 44,000 from a bank account and Rs 3,000 from another. Anoop Kumar Sharma was also duped of Rs 75,000 by an unidentified person. The accused made a phone call, somehow managed to scan his barcode and stole money from the complainant’s account. In yet another case, a conman stole Rs 32,000 from a complainant named Chandrashekhar Lodhi using his credit card number. The conman also transferred Rs…
