‘Facebook’ cheat arrested in Delhi

With help of Facebook, the Ghaziabad police have arrested a cyber cheat who defrauded an Ahmedabad-based woman of Rs 1.10 crore and recovered Rs 10 lakh from him.

The police said they received a complaint from the victim — Devika Manoj Shah, wife of Manoj Shah and resident of N-10, Vardhman Nagar, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) — who said she was lured by the Facebook friend who, later, turned out to be a cheat.

The cheat, Babloo, lured her via Facebook to a game in which he assured huge returns. Trusting him, she came to Ghaziabad in September and played the game in which she was shown winning Rs Rs 30 lakh.

‘We spread a network and nabbed him with help of Facebook, recovered internet-enabled computing system, fake currency notes and plain paper bundles buffering original currency notes so he could project those as real money,’ said police officer Shiv Shankar Yadav.