Two fall prey to cyber frauds

Chandigarh, January 7

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Two persons have fallen prey to an online fraud and lost a total of Rs 3.20 lakh.

The police said a woman reported that an unidentified person sent her a link through the Telegram app and offered work from home. The suspect asked the victim to complete certain online tasks and managed to con her out of Rs 2.93 lakh. A case has been registered at the cybercrime police station. In the other incident, Ram Chander Singh, a resident of Sector 56, reported that a person posing as an executive of a finance company called him up and offered a loan of Rs 5 lakh. The complainant got tricked and ended up losing Rs 27,000. The police registered a case and started probe.