Dr.Thomas (Sub-Editor)
Posing as Facebook friend from United Kingdom, conman cheated city based woman and made away with ₹ 11.2 lakh after luring her with 60,000 Pounds.
The victim,Lakshmi,40,from RR Nagar in her complaint to the west division cyber crime police, said that she met the accused identified as Roland James Damian from UK on Facebook on May 24.
Within hours they become friends and exchanged mobile phone numbers and started chatting.
Four days later,Lakshmi received a phone call from Roland informing her that he landed at Delhi airport to see her and struck due to some issues.
Soon the phone was taken over by a person identifying himself as immigration officer from Delhi airport informing her that Roland was carrying 60,000 UK pounds and need to pay a fee of ₹ 85,000 to get yellow card for currency exchange to be paid by indian currency .
Trusting the officer,Laksmi volunteered to bail her friend out and transferred the money online to the account number mentioned by the immigration officer .
Few minutes later she received another call from the same person asking her to pay different fee which ran into total of ₹ 11.2 lakh, failing which Roland will be detained and deported back.
Scared Lakshmi transferred the money to five different accounts through IMPS and NEFT.Soon after the money transfer the phone was disconnected .
After repeated attempt to reach out to Roland,Lakshmi realized that she had been cheated and approached the police on Monday.
