Other — Fraud by Mr. Manjeet Singh

Dear Sir/Ma'am,

I got a call via Indiamart on 28.03.2021 from a person claiming to be Manjeet Singh from Indian Army. His Mob No is - [protected].

He inquired about Refractory Bricks and told us that he requires the refractory bricks for Army Cantt. for furnace related work. We asked him the details as there is no Army Cantt in Faridabad Area but he assured us it is required in Sector-16 Faridabad Army Canteen area and he convinced us that he will pay advance payment against the same and his boss claimed to be Parveen Kumar (NAFEES) [protected] would do the transaction via google pay and paytm. We asked them to meet or share an official mail but they told us it is against the Army Protocol and they require it on an urgent basis. They shared a barcode with Army cheque written and told us to scan it and instead of getting advance payment via Paytm my account got debited by 19, 999/- and it turned out to be a fraud transaction.
The UPI address used was [protected]@paytm

When I started doubting them, they deleted the barcodes immediately, kept calling me and started begging not to make any complaints as they will lose their jobs. They made video calls wearing Army uniforms to assure us they were from Indian Army. I was out of station that day and blocked my Net Banking the same day itself.

I have filed a FIR with Cyber Cell Faridabad Police and also submitted complaints along with FIR copy to HDFC Bank, Paytm and Cybercrime.gov.in . Kindly look into the matter whether they have any links with the Indian Army or not as these fraudsters are committing crimes by misusing Indian Army's name. We trust Indian Army so we don't want fraudsters to misuse the name and dupe the citizens.

I came across a long list of complaints registered against this fraudster Manjeet Singh. His modus operandi is almost same in all the cases. Kindly take strict action against this person as soon as possible. He is quite active in social media platforms and has many contact nos. to dupe people. He should be arrested and put behind the bars as soon as possible otherwise he will keep on duping people on daily basis.