62-year-old woman duped of Rs 4.42 lakh by ‘Facebook friend’

A 62-year-old woman from Pune has lodged an FIR with the police after allegedly being duped of Rs 4.42 lakh by a man she had befriended on Facebook.

The first information report (FIR) was registered at Chaturshringi police station on Sunday.

Police said that on April 8, the woman had received a friend request on her Facebook account from the accused who claimed to be a foreign national who went by the name Dr Dominic Gobel. The woman accepted his request and soon they shared contact numbers and started talking over WhatsApp. The accused then told the complainant that he had sent a gift to her for his birthday on April 24, police said.