Bhubaneswar: A software engineer in Bhubaneswar has allegedly duped of Rs 24 lakh by a woman found on a matrimonial site.
The victim hailing from the Jatni area has lodged a written complaint with the Cyber police station in Bhubaneswar.
As per the complaint, the woman posed as an Odia girl from Balasore pursuing a medical course in California.
She introduced herself as Priya Gupta and asked the youth to help her release GBP 70,000, stuck at Delhi airport. With the help of a fake identity and false promises over a period of six months, the woman managed to get Rs 24 lakh from the youth and then went incommunicado, the complaint said.
Police said that they have registered a case on the basis of the complainant filed by the software engineer and an investigation in this connection has been started.
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