Man loses Rs 25 L in fraud after accepting a Facebook request

He then received a message. According to the FIR, which was subsequently filed, it was an obscene video, which the sender claimed, also had the man in it.

The woman asked him to pay up or risk his video going viral.

The next day, he allegedly received a call from a man  who claimed to be the ACP of Cyber Crime Branch.

He told him that he needed to talk to another officer if he wanted to avoid the uploading of the video, the FIR says.

The complainant dialled the number given to him, and he was allegedly told to make two payments of Rs 61,650 each to avoid the circulation of his video.

He did as asked, before receiving another call asking him to make one more payment of Rs 1,75,000 to get the device blocked by the mobile company. The complainant obliged again, the FIR says.

The next day, he again got a call, this time from another man  who identified himself as a police officer, and said a team was on its way to arrest him, as the woman who had sent him the Facebook request had died by suicide, and that he had been named in the suicide note.

He was asked to deposit more money.  Between July 28 and August 12, the callers kept demanding money from him under different pretexts, he claimed.

In total, the complainant allegedly ended up paying Rs 25 lakh.