NRI Marriage fraud: Cyberabad police finally nabs this repeat offender
HYDERABAD: Cyber crook who used to prey on single women was nabbed by the Cyberabad cyber crime police on Tuesday. The miscreant impersonating as an NRI used to lure the victims with the marriage proposal and exploit money from them.
The offender Komineni Vamshi Chowdary approached a victim through a matrimonial app claiming to be a US resident and employee of a MNC based out of America. To gain the trust of the victim the accused even used US cell numbers. Later he informed the victim that he is coming to Andhra Pradesh to convince his parents for marriage. Afterwards he claimed that his family are not approving their marriage as she is having two children. After which the victim suggested to move on, however he insisted that he would distance himself from his family to marry her.
“Subsequently, he convinced the victim’s parents for marriage. The accused claimed that his family had blocked his accounts, leaving him with no money and also stated that the IT department had blocked his other accounts, necessitating funds to unfreeze it, enabling to marry and move to the USA happily. The accused extracted around 2 crores from the victim woman, ” said Cyber crime police.
Victim realised that Krishna Vamshi deceived her in the name of marriage by luring about Rs. 1.80 crores and became inaccessible. Subsequently, she approached the Cyberabd police and filed a complaint requesting to take legal action against Krishna Vamshi.
What is the modus operandi?
Explaining the modus operandi Cyber crime police said, “The accused registered a profile on matrimonial site under the name N. Vamshi Krishna, indicating his status as divorced and claimed himself as US resident member and working as an MNC company based out of New York. To substantiate this lie, he created a fake company ID card online, created two mails and downloaded ‘Textme’ app from the Google Play Store and registered using these email IDs, purchasing three US phone numbers for Rs. 1610 each and started messaging victims through these numbers to gain their trust”.
Further investigation revealed that from 2009 onwards, he engaged in such fraudulent activities. He is involved in job fraud, and customs fraud where he deceived the public claiming to provide the gold seized by customs at a low price using his contacts in custom.