In another example of the rising cybercrimes in the capital city, the Commissionerate police on Friday arrested a woman for allegedly duping more than 10 persons of lakhs of rupees by creating fake social media accounts.
The woman was allegedly creating fake social media accounts with fake pictures and posing herself either as a doctor, a beautician or an IT professional and developing relationships with people.
Later, after befriending them, she used to cheat them of huge sums of money.The matter came to the fore after a youth, who was also allegedly duped by the fraudster of Rs 6.5 lakh, lodged a complaint in connection with the incident at the Saheed Nagar police station.Later, following investigation, police arrested the accused and seized Rs 1 lakh cash and several identity cards from her possession.