WFH fraud in Gurgaon: Woman loses Rs 11 lakh

GURGAO: A woman has been cheated of nearly Rs 11 lakh by fraudsters on the pretext of hitting likes for YouTube videos. The cyber police of Manesar said the woman, a resident of Agra who currently lives in Gurgaon's Sector 85, was looking up work-from-home offers online when she was contacted by the fraudsters.
"I received a message on WhatsApp for a part-time job in which the sender stated that the task included subscribing to certain YouTube channels and liking their videos," the woman said in her complaint filed on Friday.
The message further asked her to contact another number if she was interested in the job offer. "On April 13, I got my first task. The accused shared a link to a Telegram group that had 185 members. Many of them shared screenshots of their transactions and earnings from this part-time job. Initially, the accused asked me to invest Rs 5,000 and after the completion of the task, I received Rs 6,440. So, I was assured that this was not a scam," the woman further told the police.
The woman was eventually made to invest Rs 11 lakh. The accused went incommunicado after that. An FIR was lodged under IPC sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 419 (cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating). "We have formed teams to investigate the case," said police spokesperson Subhash Boken.