After all this duping, why has the lady's name not revealed? W Sent from my iPad Wendell Rodricks, Campal, Panjim. GOA 403001. INDIA Off tel: +91-832-2420604, Shop tel: +91-832-2238177 Off email: [email protected]
On 10-Mar-2015, at 10:08 PM, Goanet News <[email protected]> wrote: > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/Velim-woman-cashes-in-on-NRIs-netted-after-net-transfer/articleshow/46509536.cms > > Velim woman ‘cashes in’ on NRIs, netted after net transfer > > TNN | Mar 10, 2015, 03.09 AM IST > > PANAJI: Anita Cruz, 36, a resident of Velim, Salcete, ran out of luck on > Sunday evening, when the cyber crime cell of the Goa police arrested her > for duping Goan NRI youths of 5lakh. Her modus operandi was to pose as a > 21-year-old on Facebook with a fake ID claiming that she needed money for > her "mother's emergency treatment who needed to be rushed to a Mumbai > hospital." > > Cruz, a housewife, created five fake profiles on the social networking site > posing as a nurse working at Goa Medical College (GMC) and Hospital, > Bambolim, and befriended Goan boys working abroad. She would tell them that > she was staying with her mother and that she had lost her father when she > was very young. She would sweet talk them, get close to them and suddenly, > tell them that she needed money urgently for her mother's treatment. > > A couple of boys fell prey to her claims and transferred money online to > her cousin's account'. > > A senior officer of the cyber crime cell told TOI that as friendship > developed, she used to create these stories about her mother falling sick > suddenly and that she has to take her to Mumbai for emergency medical > treatment. Later, she would tell her NRI friends that her mother was > required to undergo an emergency surgery and that she has run out of money. > > Once in an emotional tangent, she would request the boys to transfer money > through a money transfer agency and would give them her 'cousin's name'. > > The cyber crime sleuths in the course of their investigation found that the > name she would give them was her real name, so she could withdraw the money. > > The cheating came to light when a girl filed a complaint with the cyber > crime cell that someone had used her name and picture to create a fake > profile. Around the same time, Seby, an NRI youth working in London, on > suspicion filed a complaint through his friend in Goa that the girl had > demanded Rs one lakh from him for her mother's treatment. > > The cyber crime cell then laid a trap for the woman at Margao and arrested > the accused when she came to pick up the cash from the complainant's > friend. While the accused had claimed to be in Mumbai in chats with her > facebook friends, she was actually in Goa. > > Police said that during investigation, they found that the accused had > cheated Jovino (full name withheld) working in Dubai to the tune of Rs > 4,15,000 over a period of time and Seby to the tune of Rs 50,000. > > Victim Jovino had transferred some money to the accused through a money > transfer agency and also on three occasions had handed over the cash in > person to the accused through his brother in Goa. > > Seby had transferred the money to the accused through electronic money > transfer mode. Cyber crime cell officers said that they are investigating > to find if more NRI youths have been cheated using the same modus operandi. > > The cyber crime police has attached three mobile phones which the accused > used- one for the name in her fake ID and others for posing as her cousin, > which she had used for calls and chats, along with one laptop, one tablet, > two wireless routers all worth about Rs 90,000, which the accused had > disclosed to have purchased from the money sent by the victims, apart from > cash of Rs 38,000.
