Woman cheated of Rs 3.6 lakh

AHMEDABAD: A woman was duped of Rs 3.6 lakh by online fraudsters using Nigerian scam modus operandi. Police have started scanning through digital evidence.
According to Ellisbridge police, Sonal Joshi, a resident of Paldi, works at a firm in JMC House near Parimal Garden. As per her complaint, she had come in contact with a man who identified himself as John William, a resident of London in the UK.
William developed friendship over a period of three months from January and later revealed that he wanted to invest crores of rupees in Indian real estate.
“On March 12, she got a call from William that he had landed at Delhi as per talks and had to pay some dues to the airport. He urged her to send him some money. Believing him, she transferred Rs 62,000 to a private bank account. Soon after, he called her up twice and said that he was caught up with customs department and got Rs 1.98 lakh and Rs 3.5 lakh from her in a matter of hours,” said an Ellisbridge police official.
Suspicious, she stopped payment for the amount but by the time, the fraudster had already withdrawn Rs 3.6 lakh from the account.