AHMEDABAD: A 39-year-old woman, a resident of Naranpura and an assistant manager with a pharma company, lodged a complaint with the cyber cell on Friday, alleging that a man who identified himself as Dr Himesh Parikh from the UK and said he was working with the United Nations (UN) had cheated her of Rs 17,28,000 after promising to marry her.
According to the FIR, the woman had put her biodata and a photo on a matrimonial site. On July 2, 2019, she got a message from a man who identified himself as Dr Himesh Parikh from UK.
“He told her that he is from Rajkot and works at a UN military base in Kenya as a doctor. They kept chatting and talking on the phone till July 27, 2019, and Parikh then stopped messaging her,” said a cyber cell official.
The FIR states that on September 2019, he messaged her from another number and told her that their camp had moved to Saudi Arabia and had come under attack and he could thus not contact her. He then told her that he would marry her when comes to Ahmedabad.
“In November, he called her and said that those ‘killed in the attack’ had been compensated and others had not and they were thus protesting against the UN,” an investigator said. At the end of December, he told her that they had won and he had been compensated $24,000,000 and had named her as his beneficiary, as she was now his fiancée.
The accused then told her that he was sending her a parcel with a cashier’s cheque for $240,000 and a watch. On January 3, 2020, she got a call from a man called James Grey from one ‘Global Security Courier’ who told her that her parcel had reached Delhi and she would have pay Rs 98,000 to get it, which she sent through her bank account by NEFT.
“The man then demanded Rs 2,10,000 for an ‘anti-terrorist certificate’. She called the accused and asked if she should pay the sum or not. The accused told her to pay, saying it would be easy to convert the money into Indian currency later. She paid the sum.
She was similarly made to pay Rs 6,80,000 lakh for ‘RBI assistance’ and Rs 4,40,000 to ‘generate a code to release the parcel’.
The perpetrators also demanded Rs 17,00,000 for a ‘tax certificate’. She then Rs 3,00,000 but got suspicious and on inquiring with the RBI learned that no such charges are levied.
“By this time she had already paid Rs 17,28,000 to the cheats. She approached us with an application. We registered an FIR on Friday. We are tracing the mobile numbers from which she received messages and calls,” said DCP, cyber crime, Rajdeepsinh Jhala.
According to the FIR, the woman had put her biodata and a photo on a matrimonial site. On July 2, 2019, she got a message from a man who identified himself as Dr Himesh Parikh from UK.
“He told her that he is from Rajkot and works at a UN military base in Kenya as a doctor. They kept chatting and talking on the phone till July 27, 2019, and Parikh then stopped messaging her,” said a cyber cell official.
The FIR states that on September 2019, he messaged her from another number and told her that their camp had moved to Saudi Arabia and had come under attack and he could thus not contact her. He then told her that he would marry her when comes to Ahmedabad.
“In November, he called her and said that those ‘killed in the attack’ had been compensated and others had not and they were thus protesting against the UN,” an investigator said. At the end of December, he told her that they had won and he had been compensated $24,000,000 and had named her as his beneficiary, as she was now his fiancée.
The accused then told her that he was sending her a parcel with a cashier’s cheque for $240,000 and a watch. On January 3, 2020, she got a call from a man called James Grey from one ‘Global Security Courier’ who told her that her parcel had reached Delhi and she would have pay Rs 98,000 to get it, which she sent through her bank account by NEFT.
“The man then demanded Rs 2,10,000 for an ‘anti-terrorist certificate’. She called the accused and asked if she should pay the sum or not. The accused told her to pay, saying it would be easy to convert the money into Indian currency later. She paid the sum.
She was similarly made to pay Rs 6,80,000 lakh for ‘RBI assistance’ and Rs 4,40,000 to ‘generate a code to release the parcel’.
The perpetrators also demanded Rs 17,00,000 for a ‘tax certificate’. She then Rs 3,00,000 but got suspicious and on inquiring with the RBI learned that no such charges are levied.
“By this time she had already paid Rs 17,28,000 to the cheats. She approached us with an application. We registered an FIR on Friday. We are tracing the mobile numbers from which she received messages and calls,” said DCP, cyber crime, Rajdeepsinh Jhala.
Get the app