Geeta Pandey at BBC Information studies:
In early December Mangesh Kumar (identify modified) was scrolling on Fb when he got here throughout a video from the “All India Pregnant Job Service” and determined to test it out.
The job sounded too good to be true: cash – and plenty of it – in return for getting a girl pregnant.
It was, in fact, too good to be true. Up to now, the 33-year-old, who earns 15,000 rupees ($180; £142) monthly working for a marriage celebration ornament firm, has already misplaced 16,000 rupees to fraudsters – and they’re asking for extra.
However Mangesh, from the northern Indian state of Bihar, isn’t the one particular person to fall for the rip-off.
Deputy superintendent of police Kalyan Anand, who heads the cyber cell in Bihar’s Nawada district, informed the BBC there have been a whole lot of victims of an elaborate con the place gullible males have been lured to half with their money on the promise of an enormous pay day, and an evening in a resort with a childless girl.
Up to now, his group have arrested eight males, seized 9 cell phones and a printer, and are nonetheless looking for 18 others.
However discovering the victims has proved extra tough.
“The gang has been energetic for a yr and we imagine they’ve conned a whole lot of individuals, however no-one has to date come ahead to complain, presumably due to disgrace,” he defined.
One sufferer informed the BBC that that they had been provided half one million rupees – nearly three years’ value of wages – to only have intercourse with a girl, and would obtain an additional 800,000 rupees if she conceived. The scammers despatched him images of a number of girls, asking him to decide on which one he wish to make pregnant.
That man ended up paying over 16,000 rupees to the scammers – and shared with the BBC official-looking “child start settlement” paperwork despatched to him by the scammers that appeared to have been signed with (and that is weird) the identify of US TV superstar “Oprah Winfrey.”
In the event you’re determined for cash, it’s possible you’ll make some foolhardy choices about easy methods to enhance your funds.
Though it’s straightforward to be scornful of these males who fall for scams like this, believing they’d be rewarded nicely for having intercourse with girls, the folks we should always truly be focusing our rage on are those that masterminded the rip-off, and profiting from others’ desperation.
