Driven by personal loss, a Hyderabad MBA graduate exposed an online cricket betting scam after losing a significant amount of money and his friend to suicide. He meticulously gathered evidence against influencers who lured Telugu youth with false promises of fixed matches. His efforts led to police action, resulting in arrests and preventing further exploitation of vulnerable individuals.
HYDERABAD: After losing over Rs 50 lakh and a close friend, an MBA graduate from Hyderabad has turned whistleblower helping cops' crackdown on online cricket betting. In June, the Cyberabad police filed two FIRs and arrested five online influencers for allegedly luring thousands of Telugu youth to sites promoting this illegal trade.The FIRs were lodged based on a month-long investigation carried out by the 27-year-old who recently returned to the city from Italy. He has two master’s degrees — in management and IT — and decided to take on the fraudsters after he himself fell prey to the menace. His friend, who lost Rs 60 lakh to betting, died by suicide.
“I had not only invested my own money but even borrowed funds from friends to feed my addiction,” said the whistleblower sharing how it all started in Dec 2023 when he and a friend, while browsing Instagram reels in Italy, came across advertisements offering a “guaranteed toss-fix” for cricket matches. “I clicked the link and joined the Telegram channel “The Mars Toss,” he said.There he found one of the accused, Pottavathini Deepak,...
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