Bihar man arrested for duping woman Rs 2.5cr after befriending her on FB

Jaipur: Rajasthan Police arrested a man from Bihar on Sunday for duping a woman of Rs 2.5 crore after befriending her on Facebook as a foreigner.

According to the police, the man who has been identified as Neeraj Suri has duped Sawai Madhopur resident Gunjan Sharma by introducing himself as a foreign woman named Rebecca Christine on Facebook.

Rebecca became a friend of Gunjan and told her that she is a widow and a cancer patient and owns a property worth Rs 28 crore. She further said that since she has no heir to her property, she wanted to transfer the property to Gunjan.

The accused further told the victim that 'her' lawyer Barmex and an Indian representative Bain Johnson would contact her for further steps. Thereafter, Gunjan received an email from 'Foreign Exchange Department' after which she paid Rs 2.5 crore in different accounts shared by it in the name of the penalty imposed on expensive gifts seized by custom offices which were bifurcated under different categories, including the RBI fee, processing fee, advocate expense, etc.

Soon realising that she had been duped, Gunjan then lodged a police complaint.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police, SOG Sharat Kaviraj, with his team, traced the addresses on the basis of accounts and arrested the accused from his office being run in Mussoorie and Dehradun.

It was found that the accused was working with a fake CA card and had opened offices in Delhi, Mussoorie and Dehradun to get loans and to open fake accounts by using GST, ITR, PAN card, Aadhar card details.

Further investigation found that the accused used to gang up with foreigners of Nigerian origin by sending Facebook requests with fake identities and entrap and cheat them on the pretext of giving gifts and huge amounts of reward.

Following the case, Additional Director General of Police, ATS and SOG, Rajasthan, Jaipur, has appealed to people urging them not to get tempted by offers made by unknown persons.