A man fell victim to a cryptocurrency racket to the tune of Rs 6.8 lakh in the name of marriage.
Hyderabad:A man fell victim to a cryptocurrency racket to the tune of Rs 6.8 lakh in the name of marriage. The Rachakonda cybercrime police registered a case under cheating and IT Act.
The victim was approached by one Anjali, claiming to be from a matrimonial platform. She evinced interest in marriage, and gradually urged him to invest in cryptocurrency after installing Kucoin. He invested `one lakh through oxgatespro.com. When the app started showing profits, he invested further.
On the pretext that her mother had fallen sick, she forced him to withdraw funds and he ended up paying `58,000 as charges towards withdrawal. He tried contacting the girl but in vain. He then filed a case with cybercrime sleuths.
Man duped of Rs 25 lakh in investment fraud
Hyderabad:In an investment fraud registered with Rachakonda cybercrime police, a private employee was lured to invest in stocks and ended up losing `25 lakh.
The victim, a 32-year-old employee from Medipally, was contacted by one Anjali, ‘chief investment officer at CLK securities’. After making him open a demat account, he started investments with a modest `10,000 and kept increasing the amount. When he saw `60 lakh balance on the virtual screen, he sought withdrawal only to be told that this would block his current funds. Getting suspicious, he filed a case with the cybercrime wing.
Kidney racket: Police make more arrests
Hyderabad:Police arrested an organiser Purna, alias Abhishek, and a mediator Shankar R., for the illegal kidney racket that was exposed at the Alakananda Hospita, Saroornagar police said on Saturday.
Purna reportedly operated along with other organisers Pavan and Laxman and mediators. While Pavan is in Sri Lanka, Laxman was arrested recently.
Another link in the racket, Shankar R., was the channel between the organisers of the illegal organ trade racket and the receivers of the organs. They reportedly identified the donors and recipients and helped the deals.
Meanwhile, police found that one Dr Shoaib from Kashmir had also performed illegal transplantation surgeries. The police are on the look-out for him.
