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| CB register case in an online lottery fraud | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 3: Crime Branch, Jammu has registered a case FIR No. 11/2011 u/s 420,465,468,471 RPC r/w Section 66 (A) of Information and Technology Act against some persons involved in online lottery fraud.
According to the case, Romesh Kumar R/o village Ram Nagar, Keerian District Kathua lodged a complaint alleging therein that he had received an e-mail from Mr. Larry White Fiduciary Agent UK Online Lottery, wherein he was told that he had won a lottery of 2, 50,000 pounds and was advised to contact a courier company namely Net Post Courier Service for collection of original certificate and certified bank cheque. Allured by this, Romesh Kumar contacted the above said Courier Company via e-mail who further gave him three options for the delivery of winning parcel and he opted for 3rd option i.e. Net Post Courier. The said courier service informed that their diplomatic agent Mr. Mark David will deliver the winning parcel on reaching India. After some days, Romesh Kumar received calls on his mobile number from one person disclosing his name as Mark David who had to deliver the winning parcel and asked Romesh Kumar to deposit the courier charges in the Account Number 037705000746 of ICICI Bank which was deposited by him. Subsequently, he demanded more money from him on one pretext or the other by giving different account numbers of ICICI Bank. Romesh Kumar deposited an amount of Rs. 2, 34,500/- in different account numbers which were ultimately withdrawn by Mark David. In this way, he was cheated and duped of his hard earned money by the accused persons.
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