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This is an archive article published on April 1, 2023
Gurugram woman cheated of Rs 28 lakh on pretext of work-from-home job to rate movies
On Thursday, a 33-year-old woman from Noida was also cheated of Rs 12 lakh by unknown scamsters after she was offered a job to rate movies.
A case has been registered against unknown persons while the mobile numbers, and transaction details and the website are being checked.(Representational)
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Gurugram woman cheated of Rs 28 lakh on pretext of work-from-home job to rate movies
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A 38-year-old woman from Gurugram was cheated of more than Rs 28 lakh on the pretext of working from home and earning money by giving ratings to movies on a fake website. In the last three days, this is the second such incident reported in Delhi-NCR.
On Thursday, a 33-year-old woman from Noida was also cheated of Rs 12 lakh by unknown scamsters after she was offered a job to rate movies. The police said both the women were a part of Telegram groups where the accused would ask the participants to send money to get “double” returns.
In Gurugram, the woman, identified as Meha Sethi (38), lodged a complaint from Sector 28 stating that she joined a closed group of Telegram last year in December. The woman was allegedly told she would be working as a movie critic/agent who will have to rate movies for a reputed American Cinema company ‘Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’.
The accused sent the participants a website link http://www.iflixwork.com to rate movies. From December till February this year, the woman sent money to various bank accounts to earn a “profit” later by rating movies.
The police said the woman took a loan from her family as she believed it was a work-from-home gig. She then paid the money on different occasions as per “tasks”. However, she didn’t receive any returns and was further pushed to send more money in the name of income tax deductions.
“These various payments were obtained from me on forged assurances that on completion of tasks, which was to give ratings to movies, I’ll be receiving my money back along with good incentives. Now, they are neither returning my payments nor incentives and asking for more money in the name of income tax. Now, I have a gut feeling that they have cheated me and ruined me by taking away all my life savings fraudulently and under duress,” reads the FIR lodged on the woman’s complaint.
A senior police officer said the scamsters made her spend money through “small transactions” to cheat her for a longer period of time.
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“They had repaid her the principal amount by deducting some commission. They then gave her more tasks – to rate movies on their site and send more money for profits. She lost a total of Rs 28 lakh,” said the officer.
A case has been registered against unknown persons while the mobile numbers, and transaction details and the website are being checked.
In the Noida case, the 33-year-old woman had alleged she was told to pay Rs 10,000 initially and click 30 times on a link to get double the money. She was then asked to pay more money in the name of getting better returns. The Noida police are yet to make any arrests in the case.
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