Woman Dupes Gujarat Doctor of Rs 50 lakh on Matrimonial Website

Surat: In a cyberheist, a 47-year-old paediatrician fell victim to a scam orchestrated by a woman he met on a matrimonial website, resulting in a loss of more than Rs 50 lakh.

The woman, who identified herself as Ditya Sharma from Mumbai, lured doctors with promises of substantial returns on investments in gold trading and mining. 

Fraudster Asked Doctor To Invest In Mutual Funds of Gold Companies

The doctor had registered himself on a matrimonial website in the month of June and both fraudster and doctor got matched on the matrimonial website in the month of June itself. According to police, the fraudster , after a series of conversations, realised that Narwani had invested in mutual funds and urged him to make trade investments in gold companies. 

Doctor Kept Investing After Seeing Initial Profits

On June 24, he withdrew Rs 800 from the app to test the withdrawal process. Following this, the scamster recommended that he invest Rs 10 lakh, which he then transferred on June 27. On an application called ‘CGGC’, the doctor transferred Rs 40,000 to the bank account.

Fraudster Encouraged Doctor of More Investment

In the subsequent months, the doctor was seeing profits on his account IDs. Getting motivated by the profits, he was encouraged to invest more. His further investments also reflected profits on his account id.  

Later, the woman scamster asked him to invest more to which the doctor got suspicious and he told her that he wanted a Rs 16 lakh withdrawal to which the fraudster said that 30% tax would be levied on the withdrawal. 

The doctor took advice from a Chartered accountant which informed him that the CGGC app appears to be fake. Later, he also received an email about the imposition of a 30% tax on his withdrawals. 

Cybercrime police has registered an FIR based on the doctor’s complaint under relevant sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.