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A antheral posing arsenic an technologist from the U.S.A. lured a 57-year-old city-based schoolhouse teacher for 5 years done a matrimonial app and made distant with ₹2.2 crore.
The East Division cybercrime constabulary person registered a lawsuit of individuality theft, cheating by impersonation nether the IT Act.
It was successful November past year, aft 5 years, that the unfortunate realised she had been cheated. She approached the constabulary connected Friday seeking assistance to get backmost her savings.
In her complaint, the unfortunate said that she was surviving unsocial pursuing the decease of her husband, portion her lad was surviving separately. She decided to find a spouse and enrolled successful a matrimonial app to look for a suitable spouse successful December 2019. A fewer days later, she recovered a lucifer identified arsenic Aahan Kumar A., who claimed to beryllium a U.S. citizen. She started chatting with him connected WhatsApp without adjacent asking for his photograph oregon gathering him online. After a mates of chats, the duo became truthful adjacent that Aahan Kumar agreed to beryllium her spouse and started addressing her arsenic his wife. In January 2020, Aahan sought fiscal assistance for an exigency arsenic helium did not person capable funds for food. She sent him the money, which helium assured her would beryllium a indebtedness to beryllium repaid successful six months. Trusting his words, the unfortunate started supporting him financially.
The cheating came to airy erstwhile the accused started calling her conscionable for wealth and demanded an further ₹3.5 lakh aft she had paid ₹2.2 lakh.
