Man duped of Rs 1 crore, couple arrested in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cybercrime police on Tuesday arrested a couple who allegedly honey-trapped a man by creating a fake Facebook profile and duped him of Rs 1 crore.
The arrested persons were identified as Yerragudla Dasu (30) and his wife Jyothi (28) of Sattenapalli in Guntur of Andhra Pradesh.
According to the police, Dasu created a Facebook profile with the name of a woman ‘Kalyani Sri’, and sent friend requests to several persons. A person Vijay Reddy Chintala accepted the request and started chatting with ‘Kalyani Sri’ assuming he was talking to a woman.
“After chatting with Reddy for a few weeks, ‘Kalyani Sri’ told him that ‘she’ was keen to marry him. Later, Reddy was told ‘she’ had ancestral land that was stuck in family disputes, with the ‘woman’ asking Reddy to arrange Rs 1 crore for settling the issue. He was promised a share in the profits. Believing this, the victim transferred the amount to an account given,” Cybercrime officials said, adding that the cash was transferred, Reddy found that the Facebook account was closed and the mobile phones switched off. On realising he was duped, he approached the police and lodged a complaint. A case was registered and the couple was arrested.
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