Hyderabad: A Class-VIII graduate from Nellore of Andhra Pradesh duped about 20 women including three techies under the pretext of marrying them and stole their money.
The accused N. Jeevan Kumar, 23, used pictures of others to create a matrimonial profile and input false details to lure women.
A woman techie living in Secunderabad who was searching for a prospective groom created her profile on Jeevansathi.com in February this year. While searching she found a profile on the name ‘Rishi Kumar Nallapti’ and expressed her interest.
After exchanging few formal conversations, they exchanged pictures and started talking over the phone. The man informed that he works as a professor at Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. One day, he informed her that his mother was suffering from cancer and he needs money for her treatment.
Believing it, the techie provided her credit card details and shared the OTPs with the stranger, who in turn withdrew about Rs 2.4 lakh in various instalments. When she pressurised to meet him in person, he blocked her and stopped responding to her messages. Realising that she had been cheated, the techie lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police.
A Cyber Crime official who is part of the probe said, “The accused identified as N. Jeevan Kumar was traced to Nellore based on technical evidence. He is a Class VIII dropout and unemployed. He spends most of his time online and indulges in fraud. His father was a realtor at Goa. After Class VIII, his family suffered financial losses and moved to Nellore and despite not pursuing education, he has a good command over English, which he used to trap innocent women.”
By creating fake profiles on matrimony websites, he confessed to having cheated about 20 women so far with a similar modus operandi.
There are four complaints against him at Delhi, Odisha, Karnataka and Telangana, and all victims are software employees.
In March, he duped another techie from Bengaluru and collected Rs 10 lakh from her and in April, another woman techie from Bengaluru fell prey to him and gave Rs 1.8 lakh, said an official from the cyber crime.
