A 28-year-old MBA student in Maharashtra's Nagpur has allegedly been duped of Rs 23 lakh by a man who posed as an investment advisor and approached him via Telegram messaging platform for a cryptocurre🧔ncy plan.
The 28-year-old man, hailing from West Bengal's Hooghly, was lured by a person to invest in a cryptocurrency scheme. The person promi🦩sed the student good returns.
A fraudster, posing a✤s an investment advisor, approached the student via Telegram messaging platform on November 17, 2023, news agency PTI quoted an official from Wathoda police station as sayin🐟g on Tuesday.
The student initially deposited Rs 1,000 ꦺinto a bank account specified by the person and received Rs 1,400 in return, thereby reinforcing his beli♔ef in the scheme, the official said.
Over a period of time❀, the studen🍒t ended up depositing a total of Rs 23 lakh into the account, hoping to get profits as promised.
However, the student neither received thꦿe promised returns nor was he able to retr♓ieve the invested amount, the official said.
Based on the student's complaint, the Wathoda police on Tuesday registered a case under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code an🤪d the Information Technology Act and were conductinꦿg a probe into it.
