Udupi: A woman who introduced herself on Facebook as a gift for a birthday party has raised lakhs of rupees. A case has been registered at the Udupi SEN crime police station.
David Paul Kumar, 53, of Padubidre, works for a private company in Kolnad, Mulki, who was introduced to him on August 24 by a woman named Joan Sherruy Maxwell who made believe that she is sending him a valuable gift parcel on his birthday. Accordingly, a woman from the Delhi airport made a call to David that the parcel was received but an amount of Rs. 58,000 was to be remitted to the bank account before she could send the parcel. Hence, accordingly, David transferred the money into her bank account prior to receiving the parcel to him. Later, another woman posing as an Income Tax Officer gave details of another bank account asking David to send Rs. 2,95,000 for Income tax clearance. Accordingly David transferred the said amount from his account.
Thus, a total of Rs. 3,56,000 was fraudulently obtained through the bank without giving a gift parcel. In this regard complaint lodged in Udupi district SEN crime police station under several sections of the code.