A 39-year-old man has been duped for ₹28 lakh in online fraud by a group of people who pretended to be officials of a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
The complainant works at a private company in Pimpri. Through a social media application, one of the accused, who identified himself as Dr Toichi Takino, approached him with a job offer as a procurement official in India for a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
The accused offered a job as a researcher and the executive director for discovery and research at the pharmaceutical company that he claimed was based in Osaka, Japan. The complainant accepted the job offer and sent an email to the address provided by the accused.
News Source : Times Now News
