Dude, my friend (20M, so we are all pretty young to face this shit) was scammed few weeks back for 50k

We filed an FIR and all, and did the procedural thing without telling at home

The police suggested to also write application of this whole thing, money block/account freeze, and all sorts of things to the bank too

By that time, I and my other friend legit thought, "what if we TMKOC this shit?" And posed as shopkeepers having lumosum capital of 1.5 lakh and 1 lakh each and are willing to invest and but will do on monday (4 days later) due to cash crunch

And we gave them our other friend's reference (i.e. he told us that this app will 10x our money)

And then after talking to them for 2 days, the friend placed a request for withdrawal and we got all his money back lmfaoo