A 24-year-old woman from Charkop went through the horror of loan app scam and ended up losing Rs. 4.5 lakh in the name of loan repayment which she never availed. The fraudsters threatened to defame her before family and friends and extorted Rs. 4.5 lakh in the span of 14 days. When she was left with no money and stopped payment, the fraudster circulated her photograph and number as a prostitute among her family members. The Charkop police which has launched an investigation suspects it’s a handiwork of a syndicate as the woman was harassed by almost nine different loan apps.
On March 30, the woman received a WhatsApp (WA) message from an online loan app informing her that her loan repayment is overdue and repay it at the earliest. The woman who never heard of the app before replied that she had never taken the loan.
Soon she received similar WA messages from different numbers informing her that loan repayment is due. At least eight other such apps claimed that she had taken loan from them and her payment is due. Some of them even threatened, if she didn’t pay they will circulate her obscene photographs among her friends and relatives.
The woman had indeed taken a loan of Rs. 5, 000 in August last year from another app with the last date of repayment on April 18. While taking the loan she allowed access of her contact list to the app, it was through this, the recovery agents have her contact list and used it to threaten her, said Charkop police.
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