Indian Scammer Hunt Gone Wrong: How a Czech Man Got Scammed & Jailed
India's cybercrime portal is inaccessible outside the country, leading to consequences for foreign victims.
In September 2021, Peter Kasparek, a game developer, first connected with ‘Ayan Bose’ or ‘Anay Basu’ via Facebook to create animations for a video game. He paid $450 to Bose, the advance payment of a total $1,500 fee, to get the work started.
But soon after Bose got the first instalment, he ghosted Kasparek. And on 22 December 2021, he blocked him.
One year later, Kasparek, who's a Czech citizen, found himself in Central Jail in Bihar's Motihari.
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The cases involving foreign victims scammed by India-based scammer fly under the radar of a justice process not designed to deal with internet-enabled crime where anonymity is easy — and the victim and the perpetrator are not in the same jurisdiction. In search of restitution, some victims make it their personal mission to nail the online scammer. But it is a futile exercise.
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