Pune: Online fraudsters offering ‘Group Insurance Scheme’ money cheat man of Rs 4.76 lakh

Online fraudsters claiming to be staffers of a Finance Ministry department cheated a Pune-based man of Rs 4.76 lakh, police said.

The 46-year-old man, who resides in Bibvewadi, lodged the FIR in this case at the Bharati Vidyapeeth police station on Thursday.

The fraudsters called the complainant over phone in January this year, police said. Claiming to be staffers of a Finance Ministry department in New Delhi, they told the complainant that his father will receive Rs 3,40,750 under a “Group Insurance Scheme”, police said.

To claim this insurance money, the fraudsters asked the complainant to pay money into different bank accounts as various types of charges, police said.