Pune: In separate cases of online share-trading frauds, two men from Pimpri Chinchwad collectively lost Rs 50 lakh to cybercrooks between March and Sept.Two cases were registered with the Pimpri and Sangvi police on Wednesday.A Pimpri resident (69), who runs a business of sugar factories spare parts, lost Rs 33.25 lakh to the cybercrooks between March and April.An officer from the Pimpri police said the victim was added to a group of investors on a mobile messaging app by an unknown person. The victim was also told to download an app to trade the stocks. “The victim transferred Rs 33.25 lakh to different bank accounts between March and April and lost it to the crooks,” the officer said.He filed a complaint application with the cybercrime police immediately after realising that he was duped.In another similar fraud, a vice-president of a multinational bank (42) was duped of Rs 16.58 lakh between Aug and Sept. He was also added to a group of investors in a mobile messaging app. They provided him with online training about investments. “The crooks then took money from him to different bank accounts and duped him,” an officer from the Sangvi police said.
