Tuesday, 05 July 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
Doon resident had been defrauded of Rs 66 lakh for a golden retriever puppy
The Special Task Force (STF) and cyber crime police station have arrested a Cameroon native for cyber fraud through a fake website to sell golden retriever dogs.
Cyber criminals are using new and various methods to dupe people of their hard earned money. Thugs are defrauding people of crores of rupees by placing mobile phone numbers on search engines and then contacting people through e-mail and telephone in the name of selling them items through fake websites. The cyber crime police station had received one such complaint where in Mothrowala resident Arti Rawat attempted to buy a puppy as a birthday gift for her daughter. She contacted a mobile phone number displayed on Just Dial shopping site and was told that the person on the other side was from Just Dial. The person sought advance for booking a golden retriever puppy along with transport and insurance, and defrauded her of Rs 66,39,600. The police booked a case under various sections. After investigation, on June 21 last year, the police arrested David De Job alias Ding Bobga Cloves from Bengaluru. The accused is a native of Cameroon. As the police continued investigating the case, probing the mobile phone numbers used in the crime, they came across another native of Cameroon- Nyongabsen Hilary who was also residing in Bengaluru. He had been arrested by the cyber crime police station of Surat in Gujarat for a crime registered there. On Monday, the police in Dehradun presented the accused in court from where he was sent to the Suddhowala jail on remand.
According to the police, the accused along with their accomplices had made a website similar to online portals for buying and selling items. Those who contacted them to buy foreign breeds of dogs used to be sent photographs of puppies. They then used to seek money in the name of transport charges and insurance, withdraw it from ATM in Bengaluru and transfer it to their foreigner and Indian accomplices.
The STF has appealed to the citizens to use only authorised and genuine websites for purchase items online in order to avoid the risk of cyber fraud. People should not provide any confidential private information to any online trading site or in greed after being told about having won some lottery. In case of any doubt, citizens should contact their nearest police station or cyber crime police station.
