Cyber frauds cheat woman of Rs 11.5 lakh through fake profile of ‘Indian settled in US’

A 24-year-old woman software engineer was cheated of Rs 11.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters through the Instagram profile of an ‘Indian settled in the US’ who offered to send her gold and diamond jewellery purchased from Poland. Pimpri Chinchwad police have launched a probe into the contacts and bank accounts used by the cyber criminals.

An FIR has been registered at Wakad police station on Tuesday by the software professional who works for a multinational IT company in Pune.

According to the FIR, in the second week of January, the complainant connected with an Instagram account claiming to be that of an Indian settled in the US.