Chennai Techie falls prey to cyber fraud, police arrests two

CHENNAI: In two separate cases, a 41-year-old techie and a 23-year-old woman lost several lakhs of rupees to cyber fraudsters and cases have been booked by Avadi and Chennai police respectively.

According to police, Katupakkam resident Karthik (41) got embroiled in a ‘stock trading group’ through Facebook.

After establishing contact with him, a person called “Joshitha Varshney ‘’ sent him a link on WhatsApp. Karthik was given an “institutional account” through which he traded and earned some profit.