Retired WR employee duped by 'Canadian lover'

By Somendra Sharma

The lady persuaded the 69-year-old man to cough up the cash at the pretext of clearing courier fees, duties for dear presents she had despatched him.

A retired Western Railway employee used to be allegedly scammed of Rs 27 lakh of his lifestyles’s savings after he fell sufferer to a cyber fraud.

According to the Naya Nagar police in Mira Road, the 69-year-old sufferer (title withheld on request), who is married and lives together with his wife, retired as a Chief Inspector of the WR in December 2007.

In May remaining 12 months, he came across a Facebook profile of Jenny William, who claimed to be a Canadian citizen and a civil engineer running within the United Kingdom. The sufferer despatched her a chum request which she authorized, the police said.

“After few conversations over Facebook, William shared her phone number with the sufferer. As per the sufferer, she despatched him romantic messages and her pictures from her WhatsApp number. From her pictures, she gave the impression to be around 35 years outdated,” said a police officer.

He added that all the way through one in every of their conversations, William told the sufferer she would soon ship him a gift containing a computer, an i-Phone and a cheque of GBP50000 thru courier. ‘William had additionally despatched pictures of the presents to the sufferer on WhatsApp. As per the sufferer, they might regularly chat past due into the night and he fell in love together with her,’ the officer said.

From second week of May until September remaining 12 months, William precipitated the sufferer to cough up on various pretexts, akin to paying courier and customs fees and for clearances from ministries of regulation and finance, the source of revenue tax department and the Reserve Bank of India.

“The sufferer saved on believing in William, who, we perceive, is a pretend profile created by way of fraudsters, and he saved depositing money in various bank accounts. Some of the cash, which the sufferer unsuspectingly gave to the fraudster, belonged to his wife. William had trapped the sufferer by way of announcing that she had additionally bought a plush area in UK and requested him to shift to UK to stick with her,” said a police officer.

He added this persevered until a couple of months ago when William unexpectedly become incommunicado and stopped responding.

“The sufferer then realised he had been duped however by way of then he had deposited Rs 27 lakh. He finally lodged a grievance on June 14. We have registered a case of cheating and commonplace goal. We suspect that a number of individuals are concerned on this racket,” said police inspector Kailash Barve of Naya Nagar police station.