Techie loses Rs 37 lakh to cyber goons; falls in love with ‘lucy’ on dark net

BENGALURU: Sheer desperation on the part of a 34-year-old IT professional from Magadi Road has caused him a triple whammy.

It not only cost him Rs 37 lakh as he became a victim of two back-to-back incidents of cybercrime but also cost him his marriage as his wife has filed for divorce in connection with the second incident.

All this happened over a period of just three months.

The trouble began for Mohan Rao (name changed) in mid-October 2019 when he responded to an online call for applications for engineering jobs in Dubai.