Bengaluru businessman loses ₹56 lakh to fraudulent export deal of cancer curing agent
The Hindu
A person claiming to be in the U.K. contacted the businessman with a request to purchase and export Betulina VV Extract FX (Lenzites Betulina), a herbal extract used by pharmaceutical companies to manufacture drugs used in treatment of cancer, from a company based in India.
Bengaluru
A 37-year-old businessman, who is into exports and imports, in Bengaluru lost ₹56 lakh to a fraudulent deal concocted by cyber criminals claiming to be based in the United Kingdom (UK). An FIR was registered at South East CEN police station.
About two months back, a person claiming to be Johnson contacted the businessman with a request to purchase and export Betulina VV Extract FX (Lenzites Betulina), a herbal extract used by pharmaceutical companies to manufacture drugs used in treatment of cancer, from a company based in India. Johnson claimed to be calling from the U.K. He shared the contact number of a person, identified as Nikitha Kumar, associated with the Indian company named Kumar Enterprises.
The businessman initially declined the offer telling Johnson to deal directly with the Indian company. Johnson explained that dealing directly would make the product expensive for him, and that is the reason why his company decided to go through a middleman for export. He claimed that each litre of extract costs ₹1,00,450. Johnson offered a good profit margin to supply 250 litres.
Later, another man identified as Edward called the businessman. Both the men spoke with a U.K. accent, claims the businessman. The duo shared the link of their company website, which led the businessman to believe that they were genuine customers.
Edward mailed a London-to-Delhi ticket bearing the name of a person, and told the businessman that a representative of the company will be arriving to test the samples.
The businessman contacted Nikitha and asked her to send a 1-litre sample. The woman sent a sample to Bengaluru, for which the businessman paid ₹1 lakh. As the businessman was in Andhra Pradesh and he had to fly to Delhi from there, he requested Nikitha to send another sample to a Delhi address, for which he made another payment.
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