Salt Lake doc loses 21L to dual trading scams
Times of India | 10 October 2025According to the complaint lodged by the Salt Lake CF Block resident on Wednesday, she was targeted through two parallel fraudulent operations — one in the name of ‘Quanta Pulse Pvt Ltd, UK', claiming to be a foreign trading concern, and another through a WhatsApp group, ‘Chaitanya Alpha Circle63', claiming affiliation to a popular stock trading platform. The woman said she was added to the WhatsApp group on Aug 1 and was encouraged to download an app and invest in IPOs.
Convinced, she transferred Rs 14.5 lakh. The app interface carried the popular platform's branding, which was later found to be fake.
On Sept 9, she received a call from another person, claiming to be from a UK firm, Quanta Pulse Pvt Ltd, and persuaded her to invest in international trading through a website. As "instructed", she sent Rs 6.8 lakh. On Oct 1, the fraudsters told her she earned profits of Rs 46 lakh and asked her to pay 10% as "forex transaction charges". But her ‘profit' never arrived depsite paying Rs 4.7 lakh.
"Cyber crooks use fake apps that mimic legal ones. We urge investors to verify before paying," said a Bidhannagar City Police officer.
