Pune: Police Pimpri Chinchwad is investigating 32-year-old software engineer complaints that he contacted through the Matrimonial website for divorce and accompanied by his hand cheating him from RS14.32lakh between July and August “costs and fines for the foreign currency he brought from abroad” .
The first complainant has reported this problem to the cyber police for verification after Chikhli’s police registered a formal fal on Monday.
The police said during the chat, ‘Women Nri’ told the complainant that he wanted to visit India.
Then, another woman called and represented her as a customs official.
He told the complainant that his ‘friend NRI’ had been detained at Delhi Airport with a large number of Pound Sterling and needed to pay charges and fines for the same thing.
After talks with the two women, the complainant made three transfers to the account provided by them, but when they asked for more, he felt something suspicious and approached the police.
Cybercrime Cell Investigation Officer and Assistant Inspector Pramila Kshirsagar told Toi, “While working from home during a pandemic, a complainant has a serious difference with his wife, and they decide to separate.
He enrolled with the Matrimonial website for divorce.
In July, ‘woman Nri ‘contacted him and improved interest in his profile.
” Officers said that in total, the complainant transferred RS14.32LAkh to the fraudsters.
Kshirsagar said that the probe so far revealed that the number was transferred to three bank accounts in New Delhi.
“We have obtained account holder details.
Our probe is active,” he said.
Pune: ‘Nri Woman’ Dupes Techie is equal to Rs 14L in Matrimony Fraud
