Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Fen 10: A person, who wanted to find a job abroad online, got trapped at the hands of cyber criminals and lost Rs 25 lac. To recover this money, he contacted hackers through Dark Net in an effort to recover the money he had spent and paid Rs 12 lac to them. Realising that he had been cheated by a women, his wife left him.

The techie, who is aged 34 and resides in Whitefield here, has now approached Parihar Family Counselling Centre in the office of the city police commissioner, seeking to get reunited with his estranged wife.

The man in question, employed in a multi-national company here, had fallen in love with one of his colleagues and married her. The couple had acquired a flat by raising a loan. The couple has a one-year-old baby. The techie wanted to earn more and clear his loan faster. He resigned from his job, and started searching for a job in a foreign company.

About two months back, he had sent his resume after coming across advertisement for software company in Dubai. Many people thereafter began calling him in the guise of representatives of the company and collected from him money in the guise of cost of housing the family at Dubai for a year, insurance, visa, etc. He was told to deposit Rs 25 lac initially which, he was told, would be refunded when he leaves the job. The techie raised loans from different banks and remitted the money. After sometime, he searched the website of the company and realized that he had been cheated.

Instead of informing his wife about having lost money, he contacted two hackers from the USA through Dark Net website. They asked him to pay two lac rupees. One of the hackers, a woman, used to tell him by chat that she loved him. The techie, who fell for her, remitted ten lac rupees online in stages as per her demand. Thereafter, he could not contact the hackers.

In the recent past, the techie got notice from bank to remit interest. As he did not have money, without telling his wife, the techie sold the flat. When she checked his mobile phone recently, the wife came to know about his closeness to a woman hacker of foreign origin. When questioned, the husband explained everything at which the wife got angry and deserted him, believing that he had paid the entire amount of loans raised from banks to the woman concerned, counsellor of the centre Dr Bindya, revealed.