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| Date of Complaint | November 19, 2024 |
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| Category of complaint | Cyber Crime |
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Hello, I’m Arhan Das from Bengaluru. I had learnt trading basics from a telegram community (an agency) a month ago. The admin
of the community seemed to be very genuine and passionate and would also manage their
customer’s demat accounts against a commission. They also had a policy to trade from their
customer’s behalf, they just needed the capital and 25% commission on the overall profit
earned. On November 12, I trusted them with my 10,000 as capital, and sent that money to
their agent (+919785638759). As promised, they earned me a profit of 50,578.43. To
withdraw the profit, I was asked to pay them 7715 as GST. On paying that, I was then asked
to pay 5600 as file charges. I had also asked them to tell me if I had to pay any other charges,
but they declined that, and that I had to pay no more. Also, they kept updating the invoice
every time after asking for more charges. On paying the file charges, I was again asked to pay
13,428 as the amount sending charges. After paying that, I was again asked to pay 17,401 as
their commission. I paid that by withdrawing all the money I had in my Zerodha demat
account. On paying the commission, I was promised to get paid my money back, and that I
must pay no more to them. Later, that agent sent me his manager’s number (+917240261210)
in WhatsApp and asked me to talk to him, that he’ll send my money to me.
I texted that person in WhatsApp. After an hour, he asked for confirmation of my account no.
I was to be paid in and again asked me to pay 12,512 as the UPI charges. Very unwillingly, I had to pay them by borrowing money from my friends and family. Then he promised to send
my money back, which was amounting to 99,519.43. However, I was not paid that day. The
next morning, I was said that due to some technical errors at their system, I was not paid the
money, and to receive the money, I’ll have to pay an additional 27,599. I had also asked them
many a times before to just give me the refund of the 10,000 initial capital I had sent before
along with the charges, and I was rejected every time. They always had kept asking me to
arrange for funds somehow for just 2 minutes and I would have all my money back, which I
never received.
Now they are repeatedly asking to pay 27,599 as the holding charges since yesterday. When
asked to deduct the charges from the profit I was to receive, they just reject, nor they pay me
the money so that I can pay the charges to them afterwards. I had also filed a complaint at cyber security as well as wrote to my bank explaining the fraud.
