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gurugram: A 55-year-old lady who was trying on-line for work-from-home alternatives has been scammed twice by scammers. Police mentioned the girl recognized as Sunita Soni, 55, a resident of Sohna, was initially scammed on the pretext of providing on-line jobs via a faux website. A couple of weeks later, she was scammed out of Rs 40,000 by scammers posing as consumer discussion board officers who requested her to pay a Chartered Accountant (CA) charge in addition to GST to obtain a refund of the quantity initially paid.
Police mentioned Ms Soni got here throughout the website eworksasiajobs.com in Could, which promised to assist her discover profitable jobs on-line. She informed police that when she contacted the corporate, officers requested her to pay registration charges and different prices. She mentioned she had paid the quantities talked about however had acquired no response from the positioning or its representatives.
She additional informed police that she acquired a telephone name on June 25 the place the caller posed as a consumer discussion board officer and shared his official ID to achieve her belief, the Instances of India reported.
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She mentioned: “The person informed her that many individuals have been scammed by eworksasiajobs.com to assist them discover jobs and that the Indian authorities had performed a raid which discovered the corporate was faux. He informed her the federal government had recovered the victims’ cash and was contacting them for a refund.”
Afterwards, she mentioned the person informed her she was requested to pay a CA charge, GST and different charges to get the refund. The caller requested them to switch the cash to a checking account. She paid round Rs 40,000 in 4 installments as numerous charges.
However later when requested once more to pay Rs 23,000 to get the refund, she discovered that she had been scammed once more. She then contacted the police and filed a criticism.
Police on Monday registered and investigated a case below Part 66D of the Info Expertise Act and Part 420 (Fraud) of the IPC on the Cyber Police Station (South) to trace down the scammers.
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