Mangaluru: A case has been registered at the cyber police station by Reshma from Attavara. She revealed that she received a friend request from a man named Jack Coleman. She didn’t know who he was but accepted it and after introducing themselves, the duo began chatting regularly.
By May, they became friends and Coleman said he wished to make a gift of £20,000 (over Rs 18 lakh) to her family. Reshma refused the gift but Coleman kept at it and pestered her into accepting the money. On May 9, she received a call from another man who introduced himself as a customs official from New Delhi. He asked her to pay a fine on the consignment sent by Coleman.
He said the package had violated several rules and warned her that she would be put behind bars if she did not pay. Reshma agreed and transferred the money via internet banking. She ended up paying Rs 16,69,000 in all. She tried to contact Coleman and the offical but all numbers were switched off.
