Mumbai, October 2: A 29-year-old woman was allegedly defrauded of Rs 18 lakh by a fraudster who she friended on Facebook, police said on Wednesday.
The caretaker from Ratnagiri district lodged a complaint with the Versova police station on Tuesday, an official said.
She told police that in January 2023, she got in touch with a person who called himself “Vivek Patil” on Facebook.
He claimed that he was serving in the Indian Army and was stationed in Jammu and Kashmir.
After they started chatting regularly, he asked her to borrow some money, citing health problems. The woman transferred the money to a UPI address he provided, the complaint said.
He then demanded money several times and the woman eventually transferred a total of Rs 18,30,101 into multiple accounts. It wasn’t until he stopped responding to her calls and messages that she realized she’d been deceived.
Police officials said a case has been registered against two persons named Vivek Patil and one Laxman Dalvi, whose UPI addresses were used for money transfers and investigation is on.
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