PUNE: Transferring money to an unknown person without cross-checking his identity cost a 41-year-old woman senior manager with a Kharadi-based IT company Rs3.87 lakh.
The woman transferred the money when she was told by a caller that her US-based cousin's friend, whom the manager did not know, was detained by 'customs officials' at the
Indira Gandhi International Airport with a huge quantity of undeclared US dollars. After transferring Rs3.87 lakh, when the woman called her cousin in the US, she found her cousin had no such friend and that she had been duped. The incident took place between September 19 and September 26 last year.
The woman approached the Mundhwa police on Tuesday and lodged a complaint against a suspect who posed as her cousin's friend and another woman who posed as the customs officer.
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