00:00 An organic vegetable vendor scammer who was forced to close his business before pandemic
00:08 got arrested last week for scamming Rs 21 crore out of innocent people in a walk-from-home
00:14 scam.
00:15 According to recent news, 27-year-old Rishabh Sharma, a resident of Sector 9, was summoned
00:21 for scamming Rs 21 crore across 10 Indian states.
00:26 During pandemic, he suffered a great loss in his business and decided to switch his
00:30 work profile.
00:31 To support and look after his family, he looked for various work-from-home jobs but failed.
00:37 Later, he got connected to an old friend who was already into online scams, gave him a
00:43 list of phone numbers and added him to pretend to be a hiring manager.
00:48 Rishabh created a fake Marriott Bonvoy Hotel's website and used it to offer fake jobs to
00:53 people.
00:54 He impersonated himself as an employer of Marriott Bonvoy and introduced his victims
01:00 to his colleague Sonia, who was also believed to be working with him.
01:04 His last victim was a Dehradun-based businessman who lost Rs 20 lakhs to him.
01:09 Rishabh was involved in 37 fraud cases across 10 Indian states and 855 other scams.
01:16 He created a fake telegram group, gained trust by paying Rs 10,000 and promised bigger returns.
01:23 Authorities charged him with cheating and other crimes, discovering the scam is connected
01:27 to criminal groups in other countries like China, Singapore and Hong Kong and deals with
01:34 them in Hawala and cryptocurrency.
01:37 Rishabh's arrest demonstrates the problem and challenges authorities face in dealing
01:42 with complex scams.
01:43 [Outro]
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