Pune IT professional lured into giving online reviews for money, loses Rs 8.25 lakh

An Information Technology professional in Pimpri-Chinchwad was cheated to the tune of Rs 8.25 lakh by online fraudsters who offered her a job of giving online reviews in return for lucrative compensation.

An FIR in this regard was filed at Wakad police station Saturday by the 35-year-old woman who works for a multinational IT company in Pune. According to her FIR, she was added to a phone messenger-based group in the third week of February.

Subsequently, she was approached by some of the persons on the group who offered her the job of giving online reviews for various companies and ventures to be posted on search engines.