Gurugram: Man held for cheating people with US-based woman on pretext of investing in cryptocurrency

A 32-year-old hearing and speech impaired man, working with an e-commerce retail store, has been arrested from Udyog Vihar in Haryana’s Gurugram city for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of investing in cryptocurrency, police said.

The accused, who has more than 15 crypto trading applications on his phone, uses them to divert the cheated money to his associate in the United States, police added.

The matter came to light after a man alleged that he was contacted by a woman named Diana on his Instagram app.

The woman lured him to invest in cryptocurrency and sent links of the website showing huge returns on investments.