A 65-year-old woman has recently fallen prey to an elaborate scam conducted through a dating app, in which she unfortunately lost ₹1.3 Cr. to the scammers over the span of a year. The scam started when the woman met a man named ‘Paul Rutherford’ on an online dating platform named ‘International Cupid’.
The man told her that he was a U.S. citizen working as a civil engineer in the Philippines. He then went on to ask her for money in Bitcoins for supposed legal troubles at his construction site, promising to pay her back.
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The scammer promised her that he had sent her a parcel containing $2 million that she would receive soon. She then started receiving phone calls from various supposed government agencies like RBI, NPCI, and Indian customs, all asking her to pay a fee to get over the red tape and receive her parcel, which she did over the coming months.
The woman, finally realising she was being duped, filed a police complaint on June 2024, after she found out that she had been robbed of ₹1.3 Cr!
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This case highlights the need to create awareness among individuals, especially children and senior citizens, who often don’t understand such scams and fall victim to them. While several awareness programs have been started by the government, they do not seem to be enough as such cyber-frauds are still going on each day!
People need to realise that no awareness campaign can save them until they become vigilant themselves and start doing due research before sending any random person huge and repeated sums of money over the internet, as they would not in the real world.
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