Journalist duped of Rs 1 lakh while placing online order

A 30-year-old journalist, who picked up a number from the internet to place an order for liquor online, was duped of more than Rs 1 lakh by a cyber-fraudster who impersonated a wine shop employee and tricked her into sending the money.

An FIR was registered by her with Andheri police station on Friday.

The journalist told police that she works for a digital foundation and had come to Mumbai to attend a friend’s marriage. On November 25, she wanted to order vodka and searched on the internet for wine shops in the vicinity of her rented place. She got a number purported to be of a wine shop on Andheri Kurla Road.