Bengaluru: With false NRI claims, crooks misuse matrimonial sites to swindle Rs 5 cr


Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Apr 27: It is gathered that cheating by falsely claiming in matrimonial sites to have been employed in a foreign country has been increasing every year. About 200 ladies, lured by the evil designs of the miscreants, have lost over five crore rupees during the last three years, a report says.

As per a reported published in a Kannada daily, there is a fixed plan of action the fraudsters follow. They normally choose candidates who are either single, divorced, or specially abled ladies as their victims. They introduce themselves to the ladies, win over their confidence, and then play their tricks meant to siphon off their savings. The women normally are enticed by the assurance of gifts, marriage and high standard of life in foreign country.

For example, a lady who got herself registered in a matrimony website recently, got to know of a man who claimed himself to be NRI settled in England working as doctor. He also gave her the date of his visit to India during one of the chats. On the day of his promised arrival, the lady got a call from a person who introduced himself as an airport customs officer. The officer told her that a gift had been sent to her in violation of customs rules and that for releasing the gift, fine has to be remitted. The lady believed in what he said, and remitted Rs 4.5 lac to the account number given by him. Since then, neither the self-claimed customs officer, nor the NRI groom is available for contact, the lady rues.

The lady had started working as beautician after her face was distorted in a recent accident. Earlier, she was working in the sales department of a firm. As she had to look after her aged mother, she wanted to get married. She says that the person who got in touch with her claimed his name as Benjamin with British citizenship, and settled in Liverpool. All of these, it transpires, were lies.

The lady had remitted money as demanded by the 'customs officer' to the account mentioned by him in four installments. Police personnel of cyber crime department in the city, who are investigating the case, have found that the amount so deposited was credited to an account maintained in a bank branch in Jharkhand state. The police recall that a 43-year-old woman had lost Rs 24 lac in a fraud of similar nature last year. In that incident, the caller had made the woman to remit the money in 11 installments after promising to arrive at the airport here with a costly gift.

The police say they have received six complaints about matrimony website frauds between March 25 and April 12. In most of these cases, women were targetted. Most of the telephones used by the fraudsters were found to have been located in New Delhi, Noida etc. This was found by looking at the internet protocol. The callers made their victims to believe that these calls were made from foreign countries. Some of the bank accounts involved were situated in states like Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur, where money was withdrawn or transferred elsewhere immediately after credit was received. Therefore, the police too have become helpless, sources say.

  

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  • D.P.Shetty, Bahrain

    Fri, Apr 28 2017

    Local thieves better than unknown outsider.old saying in india

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  • Kevin, Mangalore

    Fri, Apr 28 2017

    The Gujarat model of matrimony........

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  • taurojohn, mangalore/malad

    Fri, Apr 28 2017

    How come police is helpless ,if they want they can trace the culprit, bank accounts are connected to aadhar card pan card residential proof etc etc, if they know the accounts they can reach the fraud guy easily if they say its difficult,it means its suspense account.

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  • JR, MANGALORE

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    GENERALLY AS WE SEE SOME LADIES ALWAYS DOUBT ABOUT THEIR HUSBEND AND KEEP ON TESTING HIM TO GET SOME CLUES SO THAT THEY CAN KEEP ON COMMANDING HIM THEREAFTER.
    IN BETWEEN THEY START TO BE CLOSE TO SOME NEIGHBOURS AND AS SUCH INFORMATION INSIDE THE FAMILY GOES OUT AND OUTSIDERS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT WHENEVER IT IS POSSIBLE.
    "A KNOWN DEVIL IS BETTER THAN AN UNKNOWN ANGEL" IS THE THEME OF THE STORY.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    Only after 2014 ...

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  • harish jeppu, mangalore

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    Sleepless Guy after 2014

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    Hai Hai Mirchi ...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    Even this report says in the last three years ...

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  • tony d'souza, mangalore

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    May be diverting to election fund due to loosing all the states one by one

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  • Charles L D Souza, Mulki/K.S.A.

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    Police can catch these cheats if the money was transferred to an account, no matter how many times and how many accounts have been used to divert it. As it is such a huge sum of money cannot be withdrawn in cash. Only if the money is used to make purchases on internet, it will be difficult to trace the culprits. But, deposits to Bank accounts can be traced to the cheats.

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  • Ronald D, Udupi

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    I do agree with Charles. Police can catch these cheats, but lack determination. If it happen to a police officer or their close person then they will catch them. For common man got conned, there is no one for help! May be one out of hundred are caught that too due to cross connection during investigation!

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  • Comman, Man

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    A good women never go behind this all...!!

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  • Roshan P. D'Mello, M'lore

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    FEKU's everywhere. Think twice before you get fooled.

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  • shibu, Dubai

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    new feku aaya aaj

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  • Stan, Udupi/Dubai

    Thu, Apr 27 2017

    Despite frequent shows regarding frauds and cheating in television , people are making same mistake again and again.Till there are fools in the society fraudsters and cheaters thrive .Such websites to be close and the owners of the site to be punished.

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