Moradabad, December 13 (Udaipur Kiran) – A middle-aged resident of Civil Lines area in Moradabad fell victim to cyber fraud when scammers convinced him over a call about an online trading course. They installed a trading app called Bulk-SM-Pro on his mobile phone and duped him of Rs 17.06 lakh in the name of investment. The incident occurred in June, and following the victim’s complaint on Saturday, police have registered a case and begun an investigation.

Deepak Singh, 54, residing in Mission Compound, Civil Lines, submitted a written complaint to the police stating that on June 6, he received a WhatsApp call from a woman who informed him about a free online trading course. She then added him to a WhatsApp group named Josiss Club 21, where information related to trading was shared. According to Deepak Singh, the scammers claimed to be co-founders of a PhonePe stock market and said their institutional stocks were only available on their Bulk-SM-Pro platform.

Deepak further informed that the WhatsApp group Josiss Club 21 was administered by Aditya Verma and Yashasvi Sharma alias Shivani Sharma. They assured high returns on investments made through online transactions. Trusting their claims, Deepak transferred a total amount of Rs 17,06,023 to various accounts. When he later tried to withdraw money from the Bulk-SM-Pro platform, his account was frozen. Realizing the fraud, he filed a complaint on the cybercrime portal and then approached the Civil Lines police station.

Manish Saxena, SHO of Civil Lines police station, said that a case under cyber fraud and IT Act has been registered based on the complaint. The investigation is ongoing with assistance from the cyber cell.

(Udaipur Kiran)

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