Friday, December 20, 2019, 6:42 PM
25-year-old Bengaluru woman cheated of Rs 2 lakh on pretext of job offer
A 25-year-old woman got cheated of Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of offering a job in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The victim, Lakshmi, said she had uploaded her resume on a job portal on November 8 and the next day she received a call from a man posing as a job consultant. According to a report in Times of India, the man demanded money from Lakshmi towards completing various formalities for the job requirement. An Indian Institute of Science (IISc) scholar was duped earlier this week when online cheats offered him a job in Canada and extorted Rs 3.7 lakh from him.