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In another cyber fraud incident, a Gurugram resident was tricked out of more than ₹11 lakh under the pretense of earning money through home work. In his complaint to the police, Puja Verma, a resident of Sector 85, claimed to have received a WhatsApp message offering him the opportunity to earn money through a part-time job at the WFH. The victim, from Agra, alleged that the sender told him that he would receive assignments that involved subscribing to YouTube channels, police quoted PTI as saying. Verma was invited to join a Telegram channel and subscribe to some channels. The woman was then asked to invest ₹5,000, which she did and deposited into a bank account assigned to her. After receiving ₹6,440 for his investment, he became convinced that it was not a scam. He received a call from someone identifying himself as Kangana and asked him to invest ₹10,000 and was told that he would make a profit if he invested ₹1 lakh. The woman claimed that she was scammed ₹11.45 lakh. An FIR has been registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code with the Cyber Crime Department of Manesar Police Station. But this is not the only incident where cyber scammers have tricked people out of their hard-earned money. Gurugram Police recently arrested four scammers who had scammed at least 1,000 people in the Delhi-NCR area over the past five months out of at least Rs 80 crores under various pretenses such as investing money in an app or earning money by qualifying. films. Last month, a woman from Gurugram was allegedly cheated out of more than ₹28 lakh under the pretense of earning money by rating movies on a fake website. Another incident was reported in Noida where a resident was scammed out of ₹12 lakh in the same way.
