Hyderabad: A 31-year-old woman from Kowkoor in Medchal Malkajgiri district was allegedly duped of ₹15.4 lakh by cyber fraudsters in a matrimonial and impersonation scam. In June, the victim created a profile on a matrimonial site. On July 4, she connected with an individual who identified himself as Nitin Bhaskar, an NRI who claimed to work as a senior manager at a UK-based company.They continued communicating over WhatsApp and, in the first week of Aug, Nitin shared his flight details with the victim indicating that he was travelling from London to India to meet her. On Aug 5, the victim received a call from a woman, Deepshikha Arora, who posed as an immigration officer at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.Arora claimed that Nitin had been detained by customs officials for carrying £300,000 in cash. “Citing charges such as foreigner registration, currency exchange and an anti-money laundering certificate, Arora made me transfer money to different bank accounts,” the victim told police.Between Aug 5 and 7, the complainant said she transferred ₹15.4 lakh to multiple bank accounts. When the fraudsters demanded additional payments of ₹39,000 and ₹55,000 on Aug 9 and 10 respectively, the complainant became suspicious and refused to pay. As the fraudsters stopped communicating with her, the victim approached the Malkajgiri cyber crime police.A case was registered on Friday under Sections 316(2) (criminal breach of trust), 318(4) (cheating), 319(2) (cheating by personation) and 338 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc.) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 66(C) and 66(D) of the IT Act.
