Ahmedabad resident's $81,700 loss exposes a matrimonial app crypto scam

A 33-year-old CFO in Ahmedabad lost $81,700 or ₹78.99 lakh to a crypto investment fraud. It started as a match on a matrimonial app, police said. Investigators link the case to an organized network running the same script on victims across India.

A matrimonial match turns into a crypto trap

In March 2025, Hardik Chandrakantbhai Soni from Vadaj downloaded the Sangam app to find a partner. He matched with a profile named Harshitha Gondawith on May 8, 2025. Within days, the talk moved from the app to WhatsApp.

Police say she steered the chat toward cryptocurrency over the next few weeks. She told Soni about big trading wins. The winnings bought a house in central Berlin, and video proof to sell the lie. Soni had turned the pitch down at first. At last, she wore him down with her persistence.

She directed Soni to a trading site, m[.]bitcoin-on[.]com. To register, he had to give his name, email, phone number and driving license details. Then the customer support agent told him to send money to a rotating set of bank accounts. Every transfer receipt he took a screenshot of had a corresponding USDT credit on his dashboard.

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