Please please help me. Getting scammed by a loan app!

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        January 11, 2025 at 6:28 am
        Like an absolute idiot in a moment of desperation, I almost applied for a quick loan from an app called Lumen Loan.
        They immediately accepted by application and without any confirmation sent me a โ€œpayment getting disbursedโ€ message. I panicked and again like an absolute idiot checked their reviews AFTER I got this message.

        The reviews were talking about how they will randomly send you money and will start harassing you.

        I immediately deleted the application but today I have received the funds today after 24 hours.

        This is the account detail:

        N/IOBAN25011320549/IOBA0001743/OK SELECTION

        Now I tried to access the application again so I can see how much they are going to charge me now. But the application is not available on the apple app store anymore!!!

        They have access to my contacts and camera roll. Although I deleted the application immediately yesterday, Iโ€™m not sure if they still have access to it on their database.

        I know for a fact that they sre going to harrass me and I wanna take the right precautions. Please help me please help meeeeee

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          January 11, 2025 at 6:31 am
          Hire a lawyer send them legal notice. Do not touch that money untill you have returned it

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              January 11, 2025 at 6:43 am
              How do I even get their information? They have disappeared. No contact info, no email id, no app.

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                  January 11, 2025 at 6:56 am
                  Hi, yes you do need physical office address and email to send them legal notice or email informing you did not give final approval or otp to receive funds as you changed your mind after reading reviews therefore this is a forceful loan and not legal therefore you are proceeding with police and lawyers agianst them to return thier money back without any interest. You have to file complaint or initiate action before they do. So that no judge or police can force you to pay interest. Try to research about the company, get the info, if you receive any calls/messages record them. And once you have enough connect with a lawyer immediately. If its delhi ncr i will connect you with affordable ones.

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                      January 11, 2025 at 6:58 am
                      THANK YOU!!! Do you know someone in Mumbai or someone who will help me handle this on the phone?

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                          January 11, 2025 at 7:02 am
                          Unfortunately not in mumbai. But if you wanna do online consultation let me connect you to my finance lawyer friend from delhi. Take my reference and tell him you are my friend he wonโ€™t charge you for the 1st consultation, get an idea on how to proceed with him but no lawyer or police can help you without office/email etc

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                            January 11, 2025 at 7:41 am
                            no not from Mumbai. However telephonic consultation with a lawyer i can arrange but collec the necessary evidences or atleast address/email first.

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                      January 11, 2025 at 6:48 am
                      1. Check CIBIL to see if a new loan account has become active.
                      2. Keep the funds as it is, there might be a minute possibility that you may get out of it with little extra and foreclosure.
                      3. It does not take that much time to copy contacts, but gallery as it is large, might be safe to some extent(Not 100% can be copied in the small amount of time).
                      5. Make your socials private, including your WhatsApp profile picture/name to “only contacts”.
                      6. If/when they do contact, do not give in to extortion at all.
                      7. keep a log of numbers, record initial(all) calls and file a cyber crimes complaint.

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                          January 11, 2025 at 6:49 am
                          Is there any way to close this before it can get to them calling me and my contacts? Again, I have no access to their contact info though only that 1 account number. They have literally deleted the application

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                              January 11, 2025 at 6:56 am
                              These are scamsters masquerading themselves as payday loans (which themselves are borderline unlawful).

                              Their whole modus operandi is to create debt obligations and, side by side, get access to devices and persons.

                              They have your details; they will contact you.
                              The only way to get out of it is to make it not worth their effort, to make it harder to blackmail you with material and avenues.
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                              Police complaints (not much happens here).

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                            January 11, 2025 at 12:23 pm
                            If i were you, I’d be spending every cent off that money for their bs app. But then again you’re not me and you’re not a lawyer.

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                              March 3, 2025 at 10:03 pm
                              Abb ek mahine baad ka kya scene hai wo btao

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