August 09, 2018 12:35 am | Updated 12:35 am IST - Thiruvananthapuram
The cyber police have arrested a West Bengal native for defrauding an Anchuthengu native who used to work in Singapore as a domestic help of ₹8.5 lakh.
The accused was identified as Amit Bhattacharjee.
He was also under NIA scrutiny. Amit would hoodwink people into believing they had won $1 lakh as online lottery prize and needed to pay ₹8.5 lakh into various bank accounts as processing charge and tax to receive the prize.
He is learnt to have hoodwinked many other people too.
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