Instagram friend from ‘US’ dupes Delhi woman of Rs 1.7 lakh
NEW DELHI: A woman lost over Rs 1.7 lakh to cybercrooks who posed as a US citizen and befriended her on Instagram.
Police said the victim lived in west Delhi’s Nangloi with her family. It was in July that she received a follower request from a “pilot living in the US”. The woman started chatting with him and as the conversations became frequent, she started sharing details of her family and their financial condition. The man offered assistance as a gift worth Rs 80 lakh to alleviate her family’s financial burden.
However, what seemed to be a gesture of help turned out to be a web of deception.