Mumbai: A case has been registered after scammers allegedly used the name of Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar to promote a fake international trading platform called FXOnet, cheating a 45-year-old lawyer from Worli of ₹5.02 lakh.

According to the FIR filed at Worli police station, the complainant, Advocate Shabnam Mohammad Hussain Syed, a resident of BDD Chawl, Worli, came across fake articles and videos in June 2025 that falsely linked Neha Kakkar with FXOnet, portraying it as a “trusted and legal trading platform.”

Scammers Operated via Telegram and Zoom

Deceived by the fraudulent promotional content, Syed began communicating with the accused — who introduced themselves as Vijay and later Jimmy D’Souza — through international phone numbers, the Telegram app (user ID: @fxonetlbot), and Zoo

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