Three Chandigarh residents fall prey to cyber crimes

Three city residents fell prey to cyber criminals who employed various tactics to defraud them of a total of ₹1.5 lakh.

In the first case, a Sector-37 based woman was duped of ₹1.10 lakh by a man whom she befriended online.

The woman told the police that she had been interacting with a man named Leonardo Antonia on Instagram. On January 25, he told her that he had sent her a gift from UK. Later, she received calls from customs officials informing her that she needed to pay customs fee to receive the international delivery