Man cheated with lure of Amul dealership

AHMEDABAD: Sanand GIDC police on Sunday filed an FIR stating that some alleged cheaters have opened an account of 'GCMMF' (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation) to cheat persons with false promise of providing dealership of its famous brand, Amul.

This has happened after Chandramohan Gupta (54), a Sanand resident moved a complaint before police alleging that he was cheated of Rs 1.70 lakh with the false promise of providing him Amul franchise.

Gupta fell prey of online fraudsters when he was surfing the internet on December 2018 and found a website named ‘amuldistributor.com’ on which he inquired about opening an Amul outlet for his nephew, Akash Agrawal. After two days, he got a call from a person who asked Gupta to file an online form. On completion of the form, Gupta again got a call from the same person who congratulated him for getting the dealership.

“The person then, asked Gupta to call up another number to pay registration fee and other charges. When Gupta contacted another person, he gave details of a private bank account and asked him to pay money on an account named, Amul GCMMF Ltd,” said the FIR.

Gupta had made four transactions with total value of Rs 1.70 lakh to the fake GCMMF account between December 12 and December 24, 2018, stated the FIR. “But when Gupta had on December 28 called up the person on whose direction he had paid the money to inquire when he would get Amul products, the person told Gupta that he would have to pay Rs 1.40 lakh more, and he realized that he had fallen prey to fraudsters,” said Inspector MM Rajyaguru of Sanand GIDC police.

After this, Gupta approached the police and filed a complaint of cheating, breach of trust and also under the charges of IT act against unknown fraudsters, said Rajyaguru adding that they have been trying to trace the location of the callers.