VIJAYAWADA: In yet another case of fraud, a second-year college student was cheated to the tune of Rs 1.6 lakh by the fraudsters who lured her with Rs 5.35 crore lottery.Annavarapau Krupalatha, a native of Garikaparru, received a text message on her mobile phone saying that her mother has won the prize money in the lottery and asked her to contact on the number provided.Unaware of the trap laid by the fraudsters, Krupalatha dialed the mobile number given in the message. The fraudsters made her believe that the money would be transferred to her account if she provide the bank details along with her identity and address proofs. The complainant submitted all the details on the email address given by the fraudsters.Later, she was asked to pay Rs 22,800 as the processing fee and again Rs 78,000 towards taxes and another Rs 59,200 towards expenses. The complainant deposited the money in three different bank accounts given by the accusedShe waited for several days for their respond but she grew suspicious after the phone numbers on which she had interacted with the accused became unreachable. It was then she realised that she was cheated by the fraudsters and lodged a complaint with the police.The sub-inspector of Thotlavalluru, K Prasad registered a case and took up the investigation. It was found with the help of cyber cell officials that the bank accounts in which Krupalatha had deposited the amount were located in Delhi and Kolkata.‘We are trying to locate the perpetrators by establishing their identities’ said Prasad.The policeman appealed that people should not believe the messages they receive on mobile phones in the name of lotteries and also the phone calls asking for account details, CVV numbers of debit, credit cards and OTP numbers.

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