Beware of liquor home delivery con: Chandrapur cops

CHANDRAPUR: Police department here has warned citizens against online cons tricking people in the name of home delivery of liquor in dry Chandrapur district.
A fancy advertisement displaying colourful liquor bottles and a bunch of phone numbers is doing rounds on Facebook and other social media with claims of providing home delivery of booze in Chandrapur, cyber cell of the police department informed.
With people forced to stay at home due to nationwide lockdown, liquor has become a rarer commodity in the district. Even illicitly-brewed liquor is not available to those ready to pay tenfold rates. Taking advantage of the situation, some tricksters have stepped in to deceive people in the name liquor home delivery.
Cyber cops said an advertisement displaying Call Me for Home Delivery is viral on social media. There are three phone numbers ( 9101198078, 9783940768, 9982852964) with pictures of racks of liquor bottles.
After coming across such advertisement on social media, cyber cell investigated the claims. Primary investigations have revealed that all these phone numbers are being operated from out of Maharashtra.
Police made a call on the phone numbers posing as dummy customers. The ‘home delivery service provider’ asked for depositing some sum in advance and claimed that remaining sum will have to paid at the time of home delivery of liquor. It is standard operating procedure of online cons to trick unsuspecting citizens, cyber cell officials said.
Police have warned people there is no possibility of home delivery of liquor in Chandrapur. In fact, there are all chances that those seeking such services could get themselves duped. Cops have urged people not to fall prey to such social media advertisements and never make any online payment without verification.