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A 47-year-old pistillate from Vinay Nagar Colony successful Saidabad was cheated of ₹3,38,200 aft a antheral approached her with a fabricated UK-based matrimony proposal. The Cyber Crimes constabulary of Hyderabad booked a case.
Investigators said the pistillate was contacted by a idiosyncratic identifying himself arsenic Hirad Ahmed, claiming to beryllium a doc successful the United Kingdom. He allegedly gained her spot done WhatsApp calls, messages and video chats earlier convincing her to unfastened 2 caller slope accounts and get 2 caller SIM cards. She was past instructed to nonstop the passbooks and ATM cards to an alleged UK Affairs Office successful New Delhi.
Police said the accused and his associates aboriginal sent forged visa and marriage-related documents and repeatedly demanded payments for visa fees, precocious charges, luggage issues, edifice stay, formation problems and expected aesculapian emergencies. Officers said she transferred the wealth believing the claims, but aft losing interaction with him and receiving suspicious calls from aggregate numbers, she understood she had been deceived and sought constabulary help.
Cybercrime complaints tin beryllium filed done the 1930 helpline oregon astatine cybercrime.gov.in. Emergency assistance is disposable connected 8712665171. Officials besides encouraged residents to travel the Cyber Crimes Hyderabad integer platforms for regular consciousness updates.
