Rajkummar Rao was the latest celebrity to fall prey to email scam…
He recently exposed a fake email on his Insta story. The fraudster was trying to con people by pretending to speak on behalf of Rajkummar and his manager.
Masquerading as Rajkummar, the conman was aiming to extract a multi-crore fee from a film company by alleging that he’d agreed to work on a film called ‘Honeymoon Package’.
In the email, the scammer had claimed that he’d do the project only after the signing amount of Rs 3.10 CRORES was paid; that is 3 crore by cheque and 10 lakhs in cash!
Read the full email:
“Hi Arjun,
As per our last conversation to you and my manager Saumya, I hereby say that I agree to work in the said film titled Honeymoon package, which is being written by Mr. Santosh Maskey and the director on the crew is Also Mr. Santosh Maskey. As I am physically not present in Mumbai, I am sending this consent on mail. The process of signing and script narration, the hard copy of the mailed agreement would be done once we are in Mumbai. The agreement will come into effect only when the agreed signing amount of ₹3,10,000,00 (50% of the total fees) is credited to my bank account or as per My manager Saumya said you are giving me a 10,00,00 in cash and 3,00,000,00 by cheque. I am comfortable on 6th of January for the narration in Hyderabad Ramoji Studio. You, director & Producer, are invited here along with all above the mail, Regards, Rajkumar Rao.”
However, Rajkummar immediately alerted everyone by exposing the email screenshot. He declared that these scammers were using fake email ids and managers to con people. He also emphasised that he didn’t know anyone called ‘Saumya’ (who’s pretending to be his manager in fake email) in real life.
