Chosen for gotra: Noida techie duped of ₹60 lakh on email promise of fortune

A Noida-based software engineer has been duped of ₹60 lakh and the entire episode unfolded over a few mails in 2019. The Uttar Pradesh Police have finally solved the case and three men have been arrested from Bareilly.

According to the UP police, Tarun Varshney, the victim, received a mail on January 8, 2019, from some ‘Advocate Bruise Eddie’. In that mail, he was informed about the death of some Braj Varshney, who apparently died in a car accident in London in 2015. Braj Varshney had 12.5 million pound which, as the mail said, would be given to Noida’s Tarun Varshney because the gotra matched. The email said that he was chosen because of his surname. About 50 per cent of the money would go to advocate Eddie, who apparently sent the mail.