Bengaluru – 46-year-old woman duped of Rs 5.6 lakh by man she met on matrimonial site

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Bengaluru – 46-year-old woman duped of Rs 5.6 lakh by man she met on matrimonial site

Bengaluru: An Indian man, with a mobile number having England’s ISD code and huge sums of money left by father in Malaysia was searching for a life partner on a matrimonial portal. That’s not a script of some Bollywood film but a façade used by a fraudster to take monetary advantage of a woman after befriending her on a matrimonial website.

On May 20, a 46-year-old woman from Bengaluru lodged a complaint against two persons for duping her of Rs 5.6 lakh. The complainant is a resident of Jayanagar locality. She said that she signed up on a matrimonial website for finding a match for herself in the year 2019. On August 2019, a man, who identified himself as Reyansh Dinesh Acharya, approached her on the marriage site.

The two people exchanged phone numbers and began bonding.

Accused man’s plot to dupe woman

The complaint said that the man’s contact number had England’s ISD code. He said that his father, who was an employee of a Malaysian firm, had passed away three years ago, leaving behind a huge sum of money with the employer. The man claimed that he had gone to Malaysia for receiving his father’s money, the complainant told the police.

Man seeks monetary assistance

According to a report of The Times of India, Acharya asked the woman for monetary help citing urgent requirement of cash for making various fee payments in order to collect his now-deceased father’s money. The woman got convinced and sent RS 5.6 lakh in multiple online transactions.

Woman senses something amiss

On May 6, the woman grew suspicious when she got a call from a woman, who claimed to be a customs official named Archana. The caller asked the victim to make an online payment of Rs 74,000 as a charge to release money that has come from Malaysia. She narrated the entire matter to her relative and friends who advised her to register a police complaint. An FIR under the Information Technology Act and Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been lodged.

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