Fraudster Promises to Double Money in 20 Days, Decamps With Rs 95 Crore
Hyderabad: While the use of mobile and Internet has brought the entire world into one’s palms, it has opened floodgates of easy opportunities for fraudsters to reach out to gullible persons and cheat them of their money in the name of irresistible and too-easy-to-be-real offers to make money.
Y.S. Ravi Kumar Reddy, a 52-year-old man, was desperately waiting outside the cybercrime head’s office, waiting to tell his traumatic tale of losing all his money in a cryptocurrency scam.
According to Ravi Kumar Reddy, Kurimella Ramesh, 47, the owner of a company named GBR, had cheated 16 people, and decamped with Rs 95 crore.
Ravi Kumar Reddy, who had come all the way from Chennai to lodge his complaint, claimed that the scamster had assured the victims that he would double their money in just 20 days. “He first made us make small transactions and subsequently, he cheated us of Rs 95 crore.”
As per Ravi Kumar Reddy’s written complaint, the victims have been identified as Y.S. Ravi Kumar Reddy, 52, Ganga Shiva Kumar, 48, A Manoj Kumas Bapiraju, 43, a resident of Karimnagar, M Murali, 35, resident of Palamaner, Andhra Pradesh, Pilli Kishan, 48, a resident of Jagtial, Katkam Murali, 49, from Jagtial, Makulluri Madhubabu, 52, from Jagtial, Arra Manoj Kumar, 43, from Jagtial, Muttara Karthik, 30, from Nizamabad, Pallikonda Gangadhar, 30, from Nizamabad, Kotholla Sathish, 34, from Nizamabad, Pilli Anil, 30, from Nizamabad, Mestri Murali, 35, from Jagtial, Eravalli Gangadevi, 40, from Jagtial, Manali Maruthi, 42, from Jagtial, Thammala Vikas, 30, from Nizamabad.
Sources have confirmed to Deccan Chronicle that around 150 people — most of them came from three mandals Nawabpet, Nellutla, and Lingala Ghanpur — were cheated.
Earlier, the victims claimed that the fraudster had cheated around 2,500 people with the cryptocurrency scam. Police officials, however, claimed that no complaints were registered against him in their police station limits.
One of the complainants wrote a message for the officials: “He has been dodging the matter on one pretext or the other for many days. He is not lifting our calls. When Ravi Reddy tried contacting him, he would only talk through a WhatsApp call. We have all the evidence. We, the 150 families, have come on roads due to the fraud. We humbly request you (police) to take necessary action against Kurrimela Ramesh and help us in recovering our hard earned money for which act of kindness we shall be ever grateful to you.”
