VIP mobile number: Man cheated of Rs 1.43 crore in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: The lure of a VIP mobile number has cost a citizen Rs 1.43 crore. The cybercrime police have detained a man identified only as Dhruvil, a resident of Nava Vadaj, who has been cheating the complainant for the past two years.
The complainant told the cops that he had received a call in which he was told that he can get a VIP number for his mobile phone connection. The accused, Dhruvil, asked him to pay a processing fee.
The complainant has been making payments over the past two years and has so far parted with more than a crore. Dhruvil even gave an invoice with the mobile number and said that the sim card would reach the complainant.
To gain trust, Dhruvil even returned Rs 11 lakh stating that the payment was excess.
Police said that when the complainant did not receive the sim card, he approached the cybercrime cops.
Dhruvil was detained with the help of technical surveillance.
During the interrogation, the bank account of Dhruvil was checked and the cops recovered Rs 1.40 crore from the account.