Bhubaneswar: Sleuths of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha police have arrested accused Krishnananda N from his native state Karnataka in connection with an online ponzi app scam. The accused has cheated people through the ‘GETSO Earning app’. The EOW was able to crack the mobile app company after Dibyajyoti Kar, a resident of Nayapalli in the state capital, lodged a complaint against the users, an EOW official said. This is the second such scam busted recently. The EOW had cracked down on several other ponzi companies and said that it had frozen Rs 75 lakh in different bank accounts across India, officials had informed Wednesday.
The EOW official informed that Dibyajyoti joined a WhatsApp group through a person identifying himself as manager of a company namely ‘GETSO’ involved in the business of crypto mining. He was induced to invest with the company for getting high returns like six per cent daily on the amount apart from daily withdrawal facilities.
Accordingly, the complainant created an account on the website of ‘GETSO’ and deposited an amount of Rs 1.27 lakh with the company during the period from October 2022 to December, 2022. Subsequently, the GETSO WhatsApp group was closed and withdrawal requests were ignored by the company.
Officials said that GETSO not only cheated Dibyajyoti but also thousands of other investors across India. He added that more than 100 people from Odisha had deposited money with the company and all have lost it. “The amount that has been lost is close to Rs 144 crore,” the official informed. EOW informed that the fraud company was being run by a large number of people spread across the country. Police are hoping that they will soon nab the others accused.
