Women take loans to pay ‘lovers’ on social media sites, get cheated

Bengaluru | Monday | 17th June, 2019

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Preeja Prasad ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: Keeping up with the digital age, fraudsters have now turned to social media to cheat women into paying them large sums of money. Women fall victim to online ‘lovers’ through social media sites. After promising marriage they demand large sums of money, for which the women take loans, to find that the men are already married. According to the city’s cybercrime police station, 127 cases have been registered under the social media category this year, out of which 31 are matrimonial fraud cases. The woman took a bank loan of Rs 25 lakh assuming that it was for the treatment..