The Nilgiris Cyber Crime Police registered a case against scammers who defrauded a resident of Udhagamandalam of ₹14.18 lakh by promising to pay him for favourable reviews of services on social media.
According to the police, the victim, S. Kingston, 41, a resident of Theetukkal in Udhagamandalam received a message via a mobile messaging application offering him an online job. When he expressed his willingness to take up the offer, the scammers made him join a cloud-based messaging app, where their locations would become harder to track.
They made Mr. Kingston put up three reviews online and paid him ₹50 for each of his reviews, police said. Once they got the victim to trust them, they made him join a Crypto trading platform and convinced him to invest ₹14.8 lakhs, promising him significant returns on his investment.
