IT engineer duped of Rs 24 lakh from fake Odia woman
IT engineer duped of Rs 24 lakh from fake Odia woman
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Bhubaneswar: Always be on guard. Never put your blind trust in anyone. Check the facts before donating. These are just a few of the painful lessons an IT engineer from Odisha discovered after losing 24 lakh rupees.
On an Odia matrimonial website, the man from the Khurda neighbourhood of Jatani was looking for a spouse. Sure enough, he discovered Priya Gupta, the love of his life, who allegedly portrayed herself as an Odia woman from Balasore who was enrolled in a medical programme in California.
She claimed that because she was carrying 70,000 British pounds, she was stopped at the Delhi airport. In order to release the UK currency, this woman conned the young Odia man into paying her Rs 24 lakh in multiple instalments.
It was only a matter of time before the enamoured admirer realised he had been tricked and filed a complaint with the Bhubaneswar cyber police.
