GUWAHATI, Nov 10 - At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is appealing to everyone to build a digital India, cyber fraud has become a serious cause of concern for the common people of the country.
In one such incident, Doli Bala Das, a city-based daily wage earner lost Rs 18,000 of her hard-earned money after falling prey to a gang of cyber frauds.
According to the victim, last month she had applied for a loan under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) with the aim of starting her own business. After submitting the form, she got a call from one Akansha. The woman introduced herself as an employee of a financial company from New Delhi.
�In the first call, the woman gave me an email id and asked me to submit all my documents. On November 3, I got another call from the company and they asked me to deposit Rs 20,000 as security money to avail the loan,� Das said.
The victim stated that she had deposited altogether Rs 18,000 in a number of instalments in the bank account given by the group of frauds. But the group asked that she deposit another Rs 18,000 to avail the loan. Then she refused to pay the amount and asked the group to return the money she had deposited in their bank account.
Later, as she did not get a proper response from the group, she filed a complaint with the Dispur Police Station on Sunday.