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Woman held for cyber crime

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: A 25-year-old woman, who allegedly hacked the e-mail of a man of the Nilgris district and used his friends’ contact addresses to cheat them of money, was arrested on Monday by the Cyber Crime Cell of Crime Branch CID police.

With the arrest of Ritu, the police have arrested all four accused in the case and remanded them to judicial custody. Based on a complaint made by S.D. Paul, a resident of Nilgiris district, the CB-CID conducted an investigation. The investigation revealed that Ritu had befriended his wife and got details about his e-mail ID and password. Ritu then created a new e-mail ID and sent it to Mr.Paul’s contacts and friends appealing to them to send her Rs.75,000 towards medical expenses. One of the victims was Franko D’Souza, a health officer in Kuwait. He was given the bank account details and requested to send the money. When Mr. D’souza did not deposit the money, the accused requested him to issue a cheque. Police had by then identified the accused who were wanted in an earlier case registered in Bangalore for a similar offence.

Though police had arrested three of them, Ritu, the prime accused, was absconding. On Monday she was arrested and her seven-month-old baby sent with her to Puzhal prison here.

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