Man dupes 25 people with firm’s fake online profile

Pune | Wednesday | 11th July, 2018

Summary:

Investigations revealed that the conman duped people from Chennai, Kolkata, Nashik , Delhi, Jabalpur, Gujarat and other parts of India.Mishra’s transport company has a few trucks. The customer asked one of the company officials to send their bank account, PAN, GST number and other details. The transport firm’s officials uploaded a query on an e-commerce website, and they received a call within a few minutes. The company then decided to verify the matter, the police said.“An online search revealed that somebody had uploaded a fake profile of the Pune transport company on an e-commerce website and was accepting contracts using its name and other details. PUNE: Creating fake online profile of a logistic firm, a man duped 25 people across India of over Rs10 lakh in the past two months accepting business contracts.The conman took advance from people but did not render any service to the clients..