MHB Police has busted a large gang of fraudsters operating a dating app in a club in Borivali, arresting 22 people in the operation.
The operation conducted by the MHB police revealed that this gang used a popular dating app to attract young men and women, and also contacted them and invited them to clubs.Speaking in clubs, he would ask them for expensive food, drinks, etc., and would also increase the bill amount. Then, by increasing the bill amount to a much larger amount, he would give the deceived person a false bill and extort money from him.
How did this whole matter come to light?
One of the victims realized that he had been cheated in this entire case. The victim has been a complainant for twenty-six years and used to work for a debt collection company in Andheri.He met a woman on a dating app. After getting to know her, they started talking and later started dating. After that, the woman invited him to dinner one day. The two of them went to a club for dinner.The bill for food and various other things finally came to 35 thousand. After seeing the bill, the complainant was shocked. Half of this bill was paid by the woman, that is, the woman paid 15 thousand, while the complainant agreed to pay the other half.He also processed the corresponding payment.
After the payment was processed, he realized that the amount he had sent had not gone to any club’s account, but to the account of a person named Mohammed Talim.When he noticed all this, he filed a complaint with the MHB police station and taking cognizance of this complaint, the MHB police took relevant action.
How did the MHB police catch this gang?
After this entire incident, the police started taking action on the complaint of the complainant. Initially, the police tracked the woman’s number and then also found out her location.Her location was found in a hotel in the Digha area of Navi Mumbai. The police raided the hotel. She was arrested during the raid and during the interrogation, she confessed to the entire case of how men are being cheated through dating apps.At this time, During investigation she said that they would call men from dating apps, go to hotels with them, and extort false bills from them. They would do all this with the help of the hotel waiter.The accused arrested in this operation by the MHB police are also employees of the hotel, including the manager, 15 men and six women.The police are currently investigating how many more people are involved in this gang and whether similar incidents are happening in other clubs in the city.That is why ordinary people should also take care that such incidents do not happen to them.
This incident in Borivali has led to complaints of such frauds being committed on dating apps. A similar incident had also taken place in Malad in the past few days.In the related action, Malad police had arrested five to six people, and now this case in Borivali is also the latest.Therefore, the police are currently investigating whether there is any possible connection between these two cases, and the police have also appealed to the general public regarding this entire matter and also aware of such frauds.
The police urged people to be cautious when meeting and getting to know strangers, and to be aware of scams on dating apps to ensure that they do not fall victim to such scams.This has been stated by the MHB Police as well as the police administration at this time.