Retd nurse duped of Rs22.95 lakh

Nagpur: A retired nurse was duped of Rs22.95 lakh by two online tricksters last month. She is learnt to have lost all her retirement benefits in the fraud.
Mangala Fuse, 62, a retired nurse with a government-aided college and hospital, later approached Sonegaon police which registered an offence of cheating against the duo.
It's learnt that Fuse had accepted the friendship request of a social media user, who had identified himself as Alex Joe from UK, in the first week of July. The trickster lured Fuse, stating he would soon shift to Nagpur with mother and later told her to receive gold valuables and medicines sent by him worth more than Rs6 lakh.
Subsequently, Fuse received a call from a woman, who identified as Namrata Sharma from customs department, who said Rs40,000 duty was supposed to be paid for the gift or else a penalty of Rs50,000 would be levied.
After Fuse deposited some cash, Sharma went on asking for more money from her till she had to shell out Rs22.95 lakh, and approached the cops.