Crypto fraud alert: Gurugram-based exec meets women on matrimonial site, gets duped of ₹38 lakh. Here's what happened

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A Gurugram-based consulting firm executive was defrauded of approximately 38 lakh by a woman, whom he met on a matrimonial site..

The fraudster enticed him to invest in a cryptocurrency called deuncoin, and was asked for various other charges, police said..

On December 20, the victim said he received a message on WhatsApp from Deuncoin customer care support team that an amount transferred by Ridhi Sharma was an act of money laundering and comes under the scanner of financial action, and the task force asked him to deposit a similar sum within 24 hours to restore the normal status of the trading account warning that it would otherwise be frozen," he said in the complaint..

Even after he paid 38 lakh, they kept demanding more, this convinced him that the woman was involved in the whole fraud, Aggarwal said and added, The modus operandi was to first win the mans trust and then make him a victim of financial fraud.".

Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered against the unknown woman and other fraudsters under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC at the cyber police station, east..

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