Name of Complainant	Subash Balusu
Date of Complaint	August 27, 2023
Name(s) of companies complained against	@pro_trade_manish
Category of complaint	Investments
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A guy named Manish Patel claiming to be an crypto expert cheating/scamming people in 100’s of numbers. He has few groups in telegram where he lures people with multiple fake screenshots showing huge fake profits. He claims to have 5+ years of trading expertise in crypto and shows a fake license issued by some New York institute. He continuously sends messages in the group asking people to invest certain amount and promising a profit of 20 times higher than the actual amount invested. He has multiples of bank accounts with random names. Initially, he shared these details for transferring the amount, but the transaction wasn’t successful as Paytm denied the transaction to the account:

Atish Ganguly
Bank Of Maharashtra
Savings Account
A/C – 60455940653
IFSC – MAHB0000553

Then, he immediately shared details of another account to which I’ve paid 10,000 INR on August 26th, 2023. and he asked me to message him after 5 hours and when I did he showed me a screenshot of profit worth 1,80,000 from a crypto platform. While I shared my bank account details, he then replied asking me to transfer another 18,000 INR stating that a 10% comission is applicable to withdraw the locked funds. He assured me that the fund can be withdrawn immediately once the comission is cleared and I got suspicious immediately. When I Googled, there were few complaints filed against him for same reason. There are couple of YouTube videos available alerting people about the fraud. It seems there are 100’s of victims who fell in the trap and the numbers are only increasing day by day. I confronted him by sharing screenshots of complaints and about the fraud and he simply denied that he is legit and shared few more screenshots of fake conversation and claimed that Russians are using his name and photo to scam people. He was ready to show his Aadhar and claimed that he reported the scams on his name to cyber police. He immediately removed me from the free telegram group.

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