Lured into part-time job, Bengaluru techie loses Rs 61.5 lakh

Bengaluru: An unidentified person on Telegram lured a 41-year-old techie into a ‘part-time’ job and deceived him into investing Rs 61.58 lakh.

Uday Ullas (name changed), an avid user of the Telegram app for following stock market journalists, received a tempting part-time job offer from someone named Suhasini in November.

All that Ullas had to do was to complete each step of a task by investing money. He earned money at the end of each task, which involved reviewing sites by clicking the URL — https://www.skscanner-job23. com/login.