Imran, a 23-year-old resident of Whitefield, has complained to the cops that he was duped by two persons posing as sellers of an Activa scooter on OLX.
The incident occurred on November 30, 2019 when he found their advertisement on the online website. Claiming to be Sanjay Singh and KD, they allegedly asked Imran on phone to deposit Rs 34,000 immediately before the price of the brand-new scooter goes up. However, Imran ended up transferring Rs 88,000 as the fraudsters said that they hadn’t received the money. When Imran called them up, they promised to return the extra money. However, neither did he get the bike from them, nor the money.
“To establish confidence, Sanjay Singh sent me his Aadhaar card with a Gujarat address and said that he was working at the military station in Bangalore,” Imran told Residents Watch. “He said the Activa was a 2019 model and had only run 8 kilometres.”
But how did Imran fall for the bait? “He was very convincing and said that the vehicle was available with his friend KD who was close to where I lived; the moment I transfer the money, I would get the vehicle as the rate would keep going up the more I delay, he said. “By the time, I transferred Rs 34,000, he said he had not received the payment notification and I ended up making repeat transfers.”
This was quite a clever move by the scamsters who were looking for needy people and exploiting their hopelessness to defraud them of their precious savings. The cops told Imran that such cases have become quite common, and they would go to any state to nab the culprits. However, it is almost two months and Imran has not heard from the police yet. They have registered a case of cheating under IPC 420, and are still investigating.
