An alleged scammer accused of boasting about stealing cash from vulnerable, hard working Australians has gone to ground ahead of a televised exposé on his exploits.
Karan Mishra was flaunting his wealth on Instagram and Facebook – sharing global trips and posing in front of luxury cars while draped in designer clothes – as recently as this week.
Scam crusader Jim Browning first exposed Mishra in 2021 in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, revealing was monitoring the 29-year-old after learning he ripped off vulnerable pensioners in the UK.
Mishra denied all allegations when confronted by the Mail outside his family home in Behala, a middle-class area of Kolkata, India, insisting it was ‘total bulls**t’.
He claimed that his only work was helping his father run stationery shops in India.
Karan Mishra was flaunting his wealth on Instagram and Facebook – sharing global trips and posing in front of luxury cars while draped in designer clothes – as recently as this week
But it appears he has since set his sights on Australian targets. Mishra wiped his social media clean of his extravagant lifestyle just hours ahead of a segment on his exploits on 7News Spotlight.
It’s alleged phone recordings – captured after Mr Browning hacked into Mishra’s phone call centre in India – reveal Mishra to be an unapologetic thief.
‘There is nothing called humble — poor people are humble people,’ Mishra is alleged to have told a friend in the tapped phone call.
‘Once you get…
