Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)
Kundapur, Nov 21: A woman who convinced two banks and also a chartered accountant into believing her claim that she was about to receive ten crore rupees being sale proceeds of the landed property of her mother, succeeded in cheating them to the extent of thousands of rupees. She told the bank managers about the huge money she was expected to get, and promised to deposit the same in the bank.
The lady met a chartered accountant (CA) here and told him that she was from Byndoor. "After my father died, my mother has sold our Mumbai flat for Rs 39 crore. Out of that, I will get my share of ten crore rupees. As my husband is deep in debt due to his failed fish trade, I want to stash away my money without his knowledge. Therefore I want to deposit this money in bank. My mother also has Rs 18 crore in cash which I want to keep in safe deposit locker," she told the CA.
She told him that the money is with her mother and that she would come here in the evening. She also acted as if she was sending her driver to fetch her mother. Later, she said she had left her ATM card in the car and that she was urgently required to buy an equipment from Mahesh Hospital Brahmavar. The CA believed in her story and sent her in his car. That was the last time he saw her.
Bank
The lady approached a nationalized bank here on Tuesday and repeated her story there. She checked safe deposit lockers of different sizes and explained her requirement for ultra-big locker. She also enacted the drama of sending driver to bring her mother and explained about the ATM card left behind, and medical equipment her mother badly needed.
On Wednesday she narrated this story again in a private bank here and took away money. Her visit to banks and office of the CA have been captured by CCTV cameras. It is said that she took away Rs 15,000 from the above three places, and police complaints have been lodged.
Sometime back, duping of another kind had surfaced in the town. Someone used to call hotels in the name of military personnel for food parcels. They had asked for ATM numbers and fleeced the concerned. Thereafter hotels had become alert. Now, the people need to be alert about this con-woman.