College student loses Rs 1.1 lakh to ‘Facebook friend from Ireland’

A college student and her mother lost Rs 1.1 lakh to an online fraud orchestrated by a Facebook “friend”.

Kengeri resident Bhavya (name changed), 21, said in a police complaint that one Myati Dayi sent her a Facebook friend request in September. She accepted it, impressed by his profile which claimed he was a manager at a reputable company in Ireland. Dayi initially sent her messages on Facebook but they later exchanged numbers.

When her mother asked why she was chatting with a stranger, Bhavya said he was a foreigner and he was helping improve her English. Dayi told Bhavya that she was pretty and proposed marriage. Bhavya told her mother about it.