North India Statesman
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News India Live, Digital Desk: Matrimonial Site Scam Up: “I am a doctor in America, I am coming to India to marry you, I have also brought a very expensive gift for you.” When someone gets such a relationship on a website like Shaadi.com, it seems as if the dream has come true. This was also a dream for a teacher from Moradabad, but when his eyes opened, the ground had slipped under his feet. More than 95 lakh rupees had flown from his bank account and the ‘American doctor’ of dreams actually turned out to be a vicious Mahathg.
This story is not of any film, but the bitter reality of online fraud, which shows how cyber criminals are looting people’s life -long earnings by pretending to love and marriage.
‘Prem Kahani’ started on Jeevansathi.com
A teacher living in Majhola police station area of Moradabad built his profile on a matrimonial site (Jeevan.com) for his wedding. Shortly thereafter, he came to a request of a man named “Alex Max”. According to the profile, Alex was a doctor in the US. The conversation between the two began, which gradually turned into love. Alex promised to marry the teacher and said that he would come to India soon.
And then ‘airport drama’ started
The twist in the story came when one day the teacher got a call. The caller described himself as an officer of the Delhi Airport and said that Alex Max has been caught at the airport, as he has more foreign currency (dollars) and a very expensive gift than the limit. Custom clearance and fine will have to be paid to leave him. After this, ‘Doctor’ Alex himself called the teacher and pretended to cry and cry and said, “Darling, I had brought all this for you. Please, help me and send money.”
95 lakhs were given, till then the thugs kept calling …
In the dream of love and marriage, the teacher agreed to help her ‘husband’. The thugs gave them numbers of different bank accounts and she kept depositing money in them. Sometimes in the name of custom, sometimes in the name of fine, sometimes by some other excuse… this process continued till the teacher in different installments 95 lakh 38 thousand rupees Did not transfer. Whenever she was reluctant to pay the money, she would have been threatened with a call from a fake courier company and seizing the parcel.
When all the teacher’s deposits were over and the thugs started asking for more money, then they got suspicious. When he talked about meeting Alex, he stopped picking up the phone. Then she realized that she had fallen victim to a very big fraud.
Now the victim has pleaded with the police. The cyber cell of Moradabad has registered an FIR against unknown thugs under fraud and IT Act and has started investigating the case. This incident is a big lesson for all those who trust anyone online by closing their eyes.
