Siddarth Sethia
Posing as NRI residing in Swedan,conman cheated a 29-year-old private firm employee with Rs.3.9 lakh on the pretext of sending jewellery and cash worth Rs.42.4 lakh.
Based on the complaint filed on Thursday,the Central Division cyber crime police have registered a case of cheating,impersonation and under various sections of IT for further investigation.
The victim,Soubhagya,resident of Malleshwaram had met the accused on Kannada matrimonial site .
The accused introduced himself as Nagaraj Amit residing in Swedan,liked her profile and called her on whatsapp .
After chatting for few minutes Nagaraj told her that he liked her profile and inform her parents to proceed with the other formalities .
He also told her that his birthday is on September 8 and shopping for himself and also purchased some gold gifts which he would be sending it to her by air .
The next day,the accused called her to inform that the the Delhi airport custom officials have seized the gift items containing gold ornaments and other expensive gifts and cash worth Rs.43,46,600 has been seized.He said that the custom fee had to be paid to release the gift consignment and sought her help.
Excited about this the victim borrowed money from three of her friends,her sister-in-law and her sister-in-laws friend total worth Rs.3.9 lakh and transferred the money online to the account Amit had shared .
The fraud came to light when the victim tried to call Amit after transferring the money but the phone was not reachable .
The victim consulted her friends and checked the money transferred details to find that the money had been transferred to a saving back account to Meghalaya co-operative bank.
