A chartered accountant from Bengaluru tried to sell his kidney to pay off his debts and contacted someone online via a kidney donor website but instead got scammed out of Rs. 6.2 lakh.
Shocking news has surfaced from Bengaluru of a CA who got scammed attempting to sell his kidney. A Banagaluru-based chartered accountant in desperate need of money to pay off his debts tried to sell one of his kidneys. He ended up in even more financial loss as he got scammed and lost Rs. 6.2 lakhs.
The news emerged to the public when Raghuvaran (name changed) reported a complaint to the Central CEN Crime Police on February 28. He told the officials that he was in urgent need of money and out of desperation looked for people who needed kidney donors online. There he found a website named "www.kidneysuperspecialist.org". He clicked on the link and from there he got a phone number (9631688773), which he dialled to get more information.
Soon after dialling the number, Raghuvaran got in contact with a man who asked for his details like name, age, and blood group on WhatsApp. After getting the details, the man told Raghuvaran that he could get Rs. 2 crore for his kidney because he has an AB-negative blood group. The deal sounded profitable to Raghuvaran and he immediately provided every detail the scammers asked for, like his Aadhar card and PAN card to an email ID "doctordineshkullar@gmail.com."
“Initially, they asked me to pay Rs 8,000 for NOC and registration fee. Later, they told me to pay Rs 20,000 to purchase a code. The next day, they asked me to pay Rs 85,000 to operate the code," said Raghuvaran. Blinded by the Rs. 2 crore amount, Raghu followed every instruction given by the scammers.
On March 2, Raghuvaran was again asked to deposit Rs. 5 lakh for a tax clearance so that the amount could be transferred to his account. He paid the 5 lahks asked by the scammers in the hope of getting his money, but instead, he got a call from a woman claiming to be an employee of the State Bank of India. She told him that he needed to pay Rs. 7.6 lakh to get an anti-drug and terrorist clearance form. That is when Raghuvaran realised that he was getting scammed out of his money.
The officials have registered a case under the Information Technology Act and IPC Section 420 and the scammer's bank accounts have been frozen. “I wanted to pay my car’s EMI, close my credit cards and solve other financial issues,” Raghuvaran said. He also claimed that he had no idea that selling kidneys to strangers is an illegal act.
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