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UMy friend’s mother works in Israel as a Nurse. My friend works as a chef in Goa. Since they are building a house in Goa, the mother used to send money to his son via bank transfers. However, not sure why (she says due to Israel disallowing bank transfers), she recently gave the money equivalent to INR 5 lakhs to a fellow indian in Israel to remit to her son.
The INR 5 lakhs came in my friend’s Kotak Mahindra account but he also got the attached letter from Hyderabad cyber crime branch freezing his bank account as apparently the money remitted to his account were proceeds of a fraud. Please see the attached letter (verified as authentic)and kindly advise as to how can he unfreeze his bank account. Thanks in advance.
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CFraudulent money came into the account. Happens very frequently, especially when it comes to P2P transactions. Sometimes they make transfer and then claim they got scammed.
As far as I know, your friend will need to prove that the transaction is legit. He has to get the full complaint copy from the bank and get a lawyer to prove the transaction is genuine and that the money belongs to you. If your friend’s mother gave the money in cash and it’s basically a part of hawala as they call it, it’ll be very hard to prove and lift the freeze on the money
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BLawyer here based in Delhi. You got to scrounge for details regarding the cyber complaint and the complainant. Contact the relevant authorities.
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WI was in the same situation a few months ago.
Bank froze my account and I never received the info of the complainant or any court notice.
My sum was small and I got no lead further so eventually gave up on the money.Ask in the binance india sub or crypto related subs, they can help you better.
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PHi exbanker and lawyer here. There are two legs to this..The money received from Israel would be legit and the onward remittance from your friends account to yours. It appears that between the time of credit from Israel and remittance by him to you he must hav done some transaction and received money which has been back traced to scammed money. So police following the money trail landed up almost at the same time.
In this situation, you dont have much chouce but to contest the freeze in court. Ask your mom.to give the SWIFT message for wire transfer for equivalent of ₹5 lacs and then get it released. She will also need to give her employment details, salary slip to help trace legitimacy of the money. Atthe same time your friend has to give his source of funds and txn details. Use a lawyer to put all this together and pray it is taken up soon in court!
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