jabeen wrote:
It is very easy to dupe naive people online. One of my friend received a friend request message from her long lost friend in Facebook. She accepted her as friend and started chatting regularly. The long lost friend mentioned that she was in Russia and wants to send her some gifts. Later she gave her details to track the consignment from courier service. A day later she received a phone call asking her to deposit 50000Rs to collect the consignment which has reached Delhi. She was told that since she is receiving an imported things she has to pay the tax. Without verifying, my friend deposited the amount asked in the bank account given. Only later when she didn't hear anything further she realized she was duped.
You know Jabeen, this kind of fraud that you mentioned has happened a few times in Pune in the recent months. Only in these cases, the duper happened to have met women on online matrimonial sites, they chatted a few times, got horoscopes matched and fixed the wedding without meeting in person. The men then 'sent' these young women expensive jewellery, perfumes, designer clothes etc. and duped the women to the tune of 15-20 lakhs in each incident! I really wonder why these women failed to verify the authenticity of the gifts or the men!
Similarly, this particular online fraud, Rs. 5 per click!! that should have sent the warning bells ringing. Who gives so much money to do such simple task??