Four arrested for cheating man with lucrative income lure

Vadodara: Cybercrime sleuths of city police arrested four men who allegedly duped a citizen by luring him with lucrative income on investments. All the accused are residents of Ahmedabad. Police said they are investigating if the gang was involved in any other offences.
Complainant Manan Parikh told the cybercrime police that he was approached on Telegram by a woman who offered him a job where he would be earning anywhere between Rs 800 and Rs 15,000 in two hours. She then contacted him on WhatsApp and told him that his job would be to improve the sales of a company.
Parikh was asked to click on a link and was made a member of a group on Telegram. He was asked to deposit Rs 5,000 and was paid Rs 6,147 when he completed a task. The accused then asked Parikh to deposit Rs 30,000 if he wanted to earn three times more the amount. He deposited the money, but didn’t get any returns. Whenever he asked for his money, the accused used to tell him to deposit more money.
The gang siphoned over Rs 5.7 lakh from Parikh who later approached the cybercrime police. Sleuths tracked down the accused through the bank accounts and money trail and identified them as Ashish Dhakre, Govind Nemani, Vijay Hotwani and Kumar Prajapati. tnn