My father, Mr. Pratap R Mote, saw an add on OLX for activa 4g by person name Manjeeth Singh. He claimed to be from the Indian Army and convinced my father by sending images of the Honda Activa bike, Original RC of bike, a challan and some photographs of people from the Army, via whatsapp.
After that he insisted to transfer Rs 5150 as advance, to initiate the Army parcel to be dispatched and postman will deliver it our home address. He also asked for ID proof and documents and my father has shared his Voter ID card and RC card of our car.
My father uses whatsapp on a smart phone most often when he is at home, and he does not do any online transactions. He is an Ex Airforce Man and is a man of principles and virtue. He was easily convinced on hearing that the other party is also from the defence services. Hence he called me and requested me to transfer Rs 5150 via Google Pay to the person. I had my doubts as the name that appeared on the Google Pay account was different and I also cross checked, by instinct, using Truecaller and the name appeared as Vishal Patel.
Since my father insisted, I transferred the money to the account in the afternoon.
The delivery was to happen in the evening and a person by the name Parmil Kumar ontacted my father claiming to be from the delivery services. He insisted that we have to transfer an additional Rs 10000 and only then we will get the delivery. I was suspicious and that is when I looked at the documents sent by the person and realised it was not an original challan. Upon searching for the challan, I came across many complaints raised with the similar situation.
We are unable to locate the AD on OLX now, assuming they have deleted it.
Below are the details of the persons involved:-
1st Person ( who posted the AD)
Name : Manjeeth Singh
Contact number: +91 [protected]
This number is still active.
2nd Person ( claiming to be from delivery services)
Name : Parmil Kumar
Contact number: +91 [protected]
This number is still active.
3rd Person (to whom Google pay money was transfered)
Name on Google Pay - Raja Raja
Name on Truecaller - Vikas Patel
Contact number: +91 [protected]
This number is still active.
Google pay transaction details:
Upi transaction ID :[protected]
BIKASH KUMAR THAKUR
[protected]@okhdfcbank
Google transaction ID - CICAgKDq886GJQ
Request for immediate action to be taken in this regard as there are many others who have faced the same/similar problem and loss of money.
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