Many of us must have received an SMS or a WhatsApp message on part-time income. The person sending the message will claim that one can easily earn more than 3k – 4k per day.
There will be a few tasks that needs to be completed, like liking a YouTube Videos, Crypto Investment or writing Google reviews for some restaurants, some food joints or reviews on some travel place. Most of them fall prey to this, and then they lose thousands and millions of rupees. This is a big scam that has been running across the country for the past couple of years.
Normally such scams are run through the Telegram app, these fraud people will tell you to join a specific group. In that group like you, there will be many who are looking out for an opportunity to earn part-time income. The group member ranges from few hundred to thousands.
How Telegram Scam Works?
So how does this entire part-time money scam work?
1. The scammers will first message you through WhatsApp, they must have got your number from some database, the data includes your name, phone number, and the city where you are residing.
2. The person will introduce him as someone from a big advertising firm like Blackstone Advertising, Yum Advertising, and many such big advertising firms.
3. Then they will message you that if you are interested in a part-time job, he or she will share the job details with you.
4. Obviously, who would not like earning part-time income? You will message that person that “yes” I am interested in the part-time job.
5. The actual scam starts now, that person will message you again that you can easily earn thousands of rupees daily by doing small tasks like liking a YouTube video, subscribing to some YouTube channel, and writing Google reviews for some restaurants or travel place.
6. After a few minutes, you will get a telegram link, and the person will request you to join the telegram group.
7. Moreover, they will also give you a demo task. Once you are done with the task, they will tell to provide the proof screenshot of the completed task. They will pay you some amount, maybe 200 or 300 rs. They will tell you to send the screenshot to their receptionist who will be available in telegram. You will then provide your bank details and UPI number for the payment.
8. Once the amount gets credited to your account, you start trusting them. The first step now which you will take is to join the telegram group.
9. Now there will be some more tasks, you straight away do the tasks which they will tell you to do, initially they will pay an amount. This will build your trust in them.
10. Once an amount is credited to your account, they will give you one option to take some scheme. The scheme can be, if you invest 1k they will pay you 20% after a few minutes. That means after a few minutes, your account will hit 1200 rupees. Since the amount is less, you will invest, and in a few minutes, you will get the agreed profit.
11. The stage is set now, now you have 100% trust in them. They will now tell you to invest 30k or 50k, with a profit of more than 30%. Since the amount is on the higher side, some will not pay but some who are looking for quick money will pay them.
Where to report Financial Fraud?
If you are 100% sure that you are a victim of such fraud, the first thing is to log a complaint on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (Cyber Crime Portal).
For registering a financial fraud or complaint, please click here.
Once your case is registered, you can track your complaint here.
You will be asked for some basic details, once your complaint is registered, you may be called to your nearest police station for more providing more details.
Some of the big names that these scammers take are,
1. Blackstone Advertising and Branding.
2. Coin Group Investment and Advertising
3. Yum Advertising
In one of the recent cases, a man from Pune lost Rs 8.56 Lakh to a fraudster who promised him an opportunity to earn daily. Click here to read the complete story. It is not just one case, hundreds of cases are getting logged, and in 90% of such cases, people have not received their invested money back. Apart from money, your details are also exposed to them like your bank account details, UPI number, and many other personal details.
How to be safe from such scams?
If you receive such messages on WhatsApp like the part-time income, earning opportunities for free. Please block such numbers, and never share your details like your name, city, phone number, PAN card number, and Aadhar card number.
Normally such scams are driven by the Telegram app. It is a bit difficult to trace a scammer on Telegram, Telegram allows users to create accounts without revealing their phone numbers. Also, even if you have joined any telegram group and see a lot of members in such group. These members can be fake or can be a part of this scam.
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