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Conmen make off with ₹40 lakh in cash, leave accountant holding ‘Manoranjan Bank’ notes
Hindustan Times Noida
|July 15, 2025
They are school dropouts and unemployed, with no apparent means of income.
But behind that modest facade, they ran an elaborate con — posing as money exchangers, and using word-of-mouth referrals and sleight-of-hand tricks, they duped unsuspecting victims out of lakhs.
Their latest act played out like a high-stakes scam from a low-budget con movie: they left a 29-year-old accountant holding a trunkful of dummy currency notes labelled “Manoranjan Bank of India” and “Full of Fun”, after pocketing 40 lakh from him.
This story is from the July 15, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Noida.
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