Gurugram: Online Fraudster Swindles Jewellery Store Owner of ₹2 Lakh
According to the police, a man whose identity remains unknown has been arrested for allegedly defrauding a showroom owner. The suspect used a counterfeit payment screenshot to deceive the owner into believing that he had purchased gold coins worth ₹2 lakh from the store.
The alleged fraud took place on May 11 at the complainant’s JMD Regent Arcade Mall showroom on MG Road.
According to Anuradha, a resident of Bhim Garh Kher, a man came to her shop and bought a few gold coins and offered to pay online and asked for the owner’s bank details.
“My husband Mukesh Kumar was in the hospital at that time. I shared his bank account details and the person sent me a screenshot on my WhatsApp saying the payment was successful,” Anuradha said in her complaint, according to police.
He said that when he later checked the account, he found that no such payment had been credited.
“When I called the man to get money, he asked me to come to Mewat and later to Nehru Place in Delhi but never paid the money. Finally I moved to the police,” he said.
Following his complaint, an FIR was registered against unknown persons at the IPC sections of Sector 29 police station on Thursday and a manhunt was launched for cheating, police said.
