CASE 1 - Matrimonial Website Fraud (Cases)

As being posted earlier, there are many cases of matrimonial fraud involving matrimonial website. This website had become medium for fraudster to find their victims before cheating them. Here are some true cases:

CASE 1
Recently, Radha (name changed), a resident of Jupally Cyberabad, was duped by a 24 ­year ­old student who posed as a techie from Bangalore. The accused Panati Sasi Kumar approached Radha through a matrimonial site. Later he met Radha’s family too and promised to get her younger sister a job in a MNC through backdoor in lieu of `1.5 lakh. However, he did not help her get the job and instead stopped contacting them. He even threatened the woman that he would post her morphed pictures on social networking sites if she demanded the money. When the distraught Radha approached the police, investigation revealed that Kumar had married as many as 30 woman and had sent proposals to 700 others through his profiles on various matrimonial sites.

CASE 2
Swati (name changed), an interior designer was also cheated by a fraudster on a matrimonial site who made her believe that he was the US ­educated guy with a fat paycheck. Instead he vanished  with `35,000 that he borrowed from her. In yet another case, a young divorcee was cheated by a man named Anil Kumar Naidu, who claimed to be working in L&T. He convinced the woman’s mother that he was also a divorcee and fixed the alliance. He took thousands of rupees from them before calling off the match and absconding.

CASE 3
Shahina Khan, a doctor and resident of Banjara Hills whose elder sisters were registered with matrimonial sites, says many fraudsters prowl such sites with fake profiles and cheat women, luring them with marriage proposals. “While some meet the families, show off their lavish lifestyles to convince the victims before fleecing them, for others it’s a way of acquiring cheap thrills by sexually exploiting women after building romantic relationships.” Cops, however, feel that the victims are just as much to be blamed. “Though these sites do not verify the information given by those registered, parents have to do a through background search and not get carried away by attractive profile photos which are often turn out to be downloaded from internet,” says the ACP.