Express News Service
TIRUCHY: Two youths from Tiruchy, aged 26 and 25, recently fell victim to online fraud, as they were allegedly duped of Rs 4.23 lakh and Rs 4.73 lakh respectively. Both of them lodged separate complaints with the cyber crime police via their online portal on Thursday.
While M Surendar, desperately hunting for a job, fell for an online job scam, Vaishali lost Rs 4.73 lakh in an ‘e-commerce platform’. Both the online platforms, coincidentally or not, had one thing in common: the name ‘Amazon.’ In the first case, Surendar, who applied for a job through UK.Indeed.com, an online job portal, received a reply from ‘Ohumack construction group Amazon’.
Driven by excitement, he registered his details on the website without hesitation. Soon enough, his job application was approved and he was asked to prepare for an interview, which was later conducted via voice call from a foreign number. The interview went smooth and his profile was short-listed.
Within the span of a few days, the ‘organisation’ got back to him with a final round of processes, which included recording biometric details, security clearance and verification. A sum of Rs 4.23 lakh was charged as processing fee, which he paid promptly.
Finally, he boarded a flight to Delhi for visa approval, where officials of the British High Commission, to his utter dismay, revealed that the company was fake. Troubled by the scam, Surendar wrote several e-mails to the ‘company’, in…
