Pune: Two victims in separate cases — a senior citizen from Kothrud and a 47-year-old man from Loni Kalbhor — collectively lost Rs1.11 crore to an online share trading fraud.Cases were registered with the cyber police and Kothrud police, respectively, on Saturday.The Loni Kalbhor resident, who lost Rs88.34 lakh to the scam, stated in his complaint to the cyber police that in Feb this year, he came in contact with the cybercrooks through a social media platform. The scamsters added him to a group of investors on a mobile messenger app and provided him with information about investments and profits in stocks through their firm.“The crooks also shared a link with him to download their app. After that, the victim transferred sums of money as and when told. Between Feb and May, he transferred Rs88.34 lakh to different bank accounts and lost it all,” an officer of the cyber police said.In the other case, a 66-year-old retired man from Kothrud lost Rs 23lakh to cybercrooks in a similar online share trading fraud between June 9 and July 4 this year. “The senior citizen downloaded the recommended app to make stock market transactions and transferred amounts to different bank accounts provided by the crooks,” a Kothrud police officer said.
