HYDERABAD: This time it is a B.Com. first year student Manisha from Domalguda who lost Rs. 5.30 lakh. She received an e-mail in the name of a private company from America in the last week of May stating that she had won £ 2 million. The confused student sent another mail seeking clarification as to how she could win the lottery when she had not bought any tickets.
“To win over her confidence, the e-mail sender replied that his company was randomly selecting people online for awarding such huge sums on the eve of Easter,” the Chikkadpally Inspector Vasanth Rao told The Hindu. The trickster maintained that his company announced such a prize once a year and the student was the lucky one this time.
Later, he sent another mail asking the student to deposit Rs. 30,000 for processing the documents relating to release of the prize money. Accordingly, the woman deposited the money in the account of MK Automobiles at the ICICI bank’s Mehdipatnam branch.
Few days later, the cheat sent another message asking her to deposit another Rs. 2 lakh for conversion of the huge sum into Indian currency. Trusting the mail, she deposited the amount. Ms. Manisha received a third mail from the trickster seeking deposit of Rs. 3 lakh stating it was mandatory as per the international laws.
With no response from the e-mail sender for several days, the student grew suspicious. Her father Vinay Kumar, an LIC agent, approached the police on Friday. A case of Cyber Crime was registered. A Nigerian fraud is a confidence trick where the target is persuaded to give money in the hope of getting a larger sum.
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