People joining matrimonial websites to find a life partner are increasingly losing lakhs to fraud.?And a recent case in Pune is no exception.?
An IT professional from Pune became a victim of a matrimonial website scam, which saw him lose a staggering sum of nearly Rs 92 lakh.
The 33-year-old Pune techie lost Rs 91.72 lakh to a potential match who asked him to invest in a trading venture called ¡®blescoin¡¯.?The accused lured him by promising marriage and lucrative trading business. The man later filed a complaint with the local police, who registered a case against the unidentified woman and her associates.
According to the police investigation, the victim initially encountered an unidentified woman on a matrimonial website earlier this year. She claimed to be living in Malaysia and enticed him with the prospect of marriage and quickly established a rapport through phone conversations.
The woman introduced the idea of investing in a trading venture called "blescoin" as a means to secure their prosperous future together, as per Money Control.
The unsuspecting man agreed to the woman's requests.?To invest in ¡®blescoin,¡¯ he obtained loans from multiple banks and even resorted to borrowing from a loan app. The total outstanding loan amount swelled to a staggering Rs 71 lakh.
Over the course of several months, the man transferred a total of Rs 86 lakh, including his savings of Rs 15 lakh, from his bank account to various other accounts.?The greed for returns kept him convinced that his money was being utilized in the "blescoin" trading venture. He received no returns, and his investments seemed to vanish into thin air. But that was not enough of a wake-up call.
Then, in a last-ditch effort to salvage his investments, the man was persuaded to deposit more. Trusting the woman, he transferred Rs 3.95 lakh and another Rs 1.8 lakh from his bank account,?only to realize that he had been caught in a fraud.?
But by then, he had already been scammed for Rs 91.75 lakh.
It was then that the techie decided to approach the police and lodge a formal complaint. Further investigation is currently underway to identify the accused woman and her associates who were allegedly involved in the scam.
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