Lady Doctor duped of Rs 48 lakh by a so-called NRI on matrimonial website

A lady doctor of Hyderabad has been duped of Rs 48 lakh by a fraudster who had posed as an NRI on a matrimonial website. He claimed that he was a British citizen of Indian origin and worked as an orthopedic surgeon with the British Army on a UN humanitarian mission in Iraq.
This has been reported in news18.com dated 6 July 2015.

The woman, after interacting with the man for a month, was convinced that he was genuine and never imagined that within six months, he would do the vanishing trick with Rs 48 lakh of her money.
The mode of swindling was not new – the man informed her that he would come to India and get married and, in the meantime, he would send across jewelry worth a couple of crores to her because he did not trust his relatives.
Subsequently, she received a phone call, reportedly from the Delhi airport that since the consignment was so costly, she would have to pay some processing charges to clear it through customs. The man followed up with a call telling her that it was genuine and she should pay the ‘fees’ which she did. Beginning with Rs 20 lakh, it gradually went up to Rs 48 lakh. When she became suspicious and rang him up, she found his phone switched off.
She then contacted the crime branch in Hyderabad and the case was transferred to the Delhi Police special cell.
Subsequent raids conducted by Delhi police located three persons behind the racket. They stayed in Gurgaon and two of them were from Nigeria while the third was from Nagaland.
Investigations have revealed that the so-called NRI had expressed interest in 192 girls on the site and the police are getting in touch with them to find if there we any more victims.
(Image wikimediacommons.org)

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