Friday, February 15, 2013

Man encounters blackmail after stripping online for ‘girl’

Man encounters blackmail after stripping online for ‘girl’


Mumbai: Pretending to be a girl, a 24-year-old MBA who chatted online with another man asked him to dance nude, recorded the act and used the clip to blackmail him.
    The police said the accused, Nikhil Lala, saved the clip on his laptop and threatened to send the images to the victim’s wife if he did not give him Rs 80,000.
    The property cell of the city police arrested Lala from his office in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. Inspector Nandkumar Gopale of the property cell said the complainant was a 33-year-old married man living in Central Mumbai. “In January, the victim came began chatting to a person who claimed to be an unmarried woman,” Gopale said. “One day, the ‘girl’ asked the complainant that she wanted to see him nude. Later the complainant was blackmailed.”

Industrialist card fraud trail goes beyond India

Industrialist card fraud trail goes beyond India

B’lore, Nashik, Ahmedabad Link In Fraud Cases


Mumbai: Police investigations in the case of fraudulent use of industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla’s credit card details have revealed the involvement of people from Bangalore, Sri Lanka and Bangkok.
    Two Bangalore men accused of using a cloned credit card of Birla to buy gold jewellery worth Rs 2.86 lakh in 2011 were interrogated last month by officers of the Worli police station after they were brought to the city from the Karnataka capital on a transit remand.
    The two, Jayakumar Samuel and Raja Pandian alias Megharaj, were picked up in Bangalore last month and handed over to the Worli police. “We handed over custody of Samuel and Pandian (to the Worli police) in Janu
ary,” a Bangalore police officer said.
    A few days after the purchases, the Bangalore police had arrested nine members of the gang that had sent the two to shop with the cloned card. The gang of nine told the police that they had pur
chased the details of Birla’s card for Rs 10,000 from members of an international gang operating from Bangkok. They then took the help of a Sri Lankan to prepare the cloned card. The police said the gang was unaware the card belonged to Birla.
HOW IT WORKED
    
Bangalore police say the fraudsters would purchase credit card details for Rs 10,000 per card from a Bangkok-based gang
    The deals would be struck through a website, www. cdrsu.su
    A gang member, N Goutam, would pass on card details and magnetic strips to his accomplice Jayakumar and a Sri Lankan, Hari Prasad, who would come to Bangalore to
prepare cloned cards
    The gang would pay a commission to people who agreed to shop with the cloned cards at malls

82-yr-old retired cop duped of 31 lakh - Wekalp Trade Solutions

82-yr-old rtd cop duped of 31 lakh



 An 82-year-old former police officer was left poorer by Rs 31 lakh after the returns on a get-rich quick scheme he had heavily invested in stopped abruptly last year.
    Laxman Awchat, a Mahim resident who retired as a senior police officer, lodged a complaint with the Mahim police station saying he had invested Rs 48 lakh in a 20-month money double scheme offered by an entity called Wekalp Trade Solutions in October 2010, but got back only Rs 17 lakh before the proprietor of the investment firm disappeared with his money.
    The police said Wekalp proprietor Mayank Dhruv had promised 100% returns in just 20 months if Awchat invested a large sum. They said besides the city, Dhruv had also opened offices in
Nashik, where there were several cases of fraud against him.
    DCP (zone V) Dhananjay Kulkarni has formed a team led by inspector Bhausaheb Gite to catch Dhruv. “Many fraud cases were registered against Dhruv with the Nashik police after several people were duped of crores,” he said.
    Awchat was lured into investing with Wekalp after visiting the Dadar office of the company in 2010.

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