Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jun 6: Unidentified persons who got in touch with a person from the city through Facebook defrauded him to the tune of Rs 13, 62,800. It is gathered that these persons claimed themselves to be customs officials and the rightful claimants of a box containing dollar currency that they said had arrived from a foreign country, and obtained loan of Rs 13, 62,800 from him.
A complaint in this connection has been registered in the cyber crimes police station in the city in this respect.
The complainant said that Jain Poojary and some others, who got introduced to him in Facebook, had fleeced him. The accused and the complainant had become friends on Facebook since January this year. The cyber police, who received the complaint, are investigating.