Mangaluru: An individual who posed as a ‘most sensible cop’ at Mangaluru International Airport, has duped many of us to the song of a number of lakhs. He posted about selling his automobile in a just right situation on an e-commerce web site, at a dirt-cheap value, and later conned the prospective buyers.
This incident has come to mild under the Kavoor police station, the place a conman posing because the ‘deputy chief commissioner of central excise’, identified as Kirthy Kumar, and showed an ID card issued by way of the Mangalore International Airport, cheated over a dozen other people. However, nobody has filed any complaint on this regard.
The modus operandi of this fraudster was once to place an commercial on OLX, to sell his automobile. He would put up that customers will pay handiest Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh in advance, and the rest of the amount can be paid after the auto paperwork are transferred.
Most of the buyers would consider it blindly, since he showed that he was once a senior IPS officer. He would also point out that he has been transferred to some other place, and that he needed to unload his automobile straight away. According to resources, a dozen other people have paid the scamster, anywhere between Rs 20,000 to Rs 2lakh online, and arrived at the airport to gather the auto. Some even got into a verbal spat with the airport workforce, and called the conman, announcing that the airport authorities are not giving them the car. Whenever they called, the scamster would respond with an assurance to go back the call, and later move incommunicado.
A source added that they attempted to convince the buyers that they had been cheated, however none of them have filed a complaint.
Officials from the central excise department showed that there is not any such person operating within the department. In truth, the function of safety at the airport is looked after by way of the CISF and no longer central excise.
Meanwhile, there are also a few mistakes within the identification card shown by way of the conman, and a radical check will reveal that it’s a pretend one, said resources. For instance, the word airport is improperly spelt within the ID. Secondly, there is not any seal of the Airports Authority of India on it.
This incident has come to mild under the Kavoor police station, the place a conman posing because the ‘deputy chief commissioner of central excise’, identified as Kirthy Kumar, and showed an ID card issued by way of the Mangalore International Airport, cheated over a dozen other people. However, nobody has filed any complaint on this regard.
The modus operandi of this fraudster was once to place an commercial on OLX, to sell his automobile. He would put up that customers will pay handiest Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh in advance, and the rest of the amount can be paid after the auto paperwork are transferred.
Most of the buyers would consider it blindly, since he showed that he was once a senior IPS officer. He would also point out that he has been transferred to some other place, and that he needed to unload his automobile straight away. According to resources, a dozen other people have paid the scamster, anywhere between Rs 20,000 to Rs 2lakh online, and arrived at the airport to gather the auto. Some even got into a verbal spat with the airport workforce, and called the conman, announcing that the airport authorities are not giving them the car. Whenever they called, the scamster would respond with an assurance to go back the call, and later move incommunicado.
A source added that they attempted to convince the buyers that they had been cheated, however none of them have filed a complaint.
Officials from the central excise department showed that there is not any such person operating within the department. In truth, the function of safety at the airport is looked after by way of the CISF and no longer central excise.
Meanwhile, there are also a few mistakes within the identification card shown by way of the conman, and a radical check will reveal that it’s a pretend one, said resources. For instance, the word airport is improperly spelt within the ID. Secondly, there is not any seal of the Airports Authority of India on it.
Fraudster claiming to be ‘top cop’ cheats a dozen car buyers
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July 04, 2018
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