Lucknow, July 28: ‘Click farm’ frauds are growing by the day in Lucknow where a 45th victim was reported. As per rough estimates, Lucknow residents have lost Rs 15 crore to click farm frauds, wherein people are hired for giving good online ratings to commodities and services.
The latest victim, identified as Harshit Gupta of New Ganeshganj, was hired by fraudsters to give good ratings to some hotels and was promised Rs 10 lakh. Gupta was asked to give a rating to 28 hotel images and details. He was asked to deposit Rs 11,300 for registration.
“However, I got stuck at the rating work after I had completed 13 tasks due to a technical glitch. I contacted the person who had given me the task. I was asked to deposit Rs 84,112 to proceed. But I got stuck again in the 22nd task and 26th task and paid Rs 2. 23 lakhs and Rs 4. 25 lakhs respectively to continue,” he said.
He was promised the money would be refunded. However, when even after several reminders for a refund he got no response, Gupta complained to the cyber police. Gupta also added that he later realised that the technical glitch was deliberate to extract more money from him.
