Bengaluru, Feb 2: A woman from Bengaluru lost Rs 2.8 lakh to a 'foreign friend' who promised her gifts, including gold jewellery and foreign currency.
Priya, 37, of Banashankari III Stage, told police a man named Bright Wills from England befriended her on social media in December 2019.
On December 20, Wills said he would send gold ornaments and some British pounds as gifts to celebrate their friendship and took her postal address.
“A woman claiming to be an official from the customs office, Delhi, called me on December 21. She told me there was a courier from England in my name and I should pay Rs 75,000 tow ards customs clearance. I believed her and transferred Rs 75,000 to a bank account number provided by her. On December 23, another woman called and said gold ornaments had been sent to me by courier and I had to pay Rs 2.1 lakh towards the paperwork. I transferred the money to another account number mentioned by her," Priya told police.
"On December 25, I received an email which said I should make a surety deposit of Rs 4.3 lakh within 48 hours or else the courier would be sent back to its original destination. I realised I had been cheated by Wills and others. Till now, I have paid Rs 2.8 lakh to them," she claimed.
Bengaluru, Apr 19: Sleuths from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested two Ph.D. students, one from Bangalore University and the other Karnataka State Open University, in connection with the II PU paper leak case.
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Check their backgrounds, may be they are members of ABVP
Need to be investigated for how long they have been helping Mahesh and Xpert colleges....they must have made millions as of now...
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