17 March,2009 09:40 AM IST | | Imran Gowhar
The latest diversionary tactic is quite a sick one: A conman throws up on a victim and his associate runs away with the cash
Neelakantha felt someone puke on him from behind. The next minute, as he was trying to clean himself, his bag containing Rs 1 lakh was gone.
The incident occurred on the busy Richmond Road on Saturday after Neelakantha, an employee in a private firm, walked back to his vehicle after withdrawing Rs 1 lakh from the bank.
Suddenly, someone puked on him from behind. The youth apologised and sped away while Neelakantha walked to a nearby tea stall to clean himself up.
A 12-year-old boy then sprinted towards Neelakantha and escaped with his cash bag. Neelakantha raised an alarm but by then, the boy had reached a bike. Riding it was the man who had puked and the two escaped. Neelakantha later filed a complaint with Ashok Nagar police station.
More diversion
In another such incident on Richmond Road, a businessman's laptop and 10 air tickets were stolen after two conmen diverted his driver's attention while he was at the bank.
K S Raghuram said the driver, Harish Rao, was sitting in the car with the laptop bag on the front seat. Two men approached Rao and told him that a few notes had fallen in front of the car.u00a0Rao got out of the car to check but found nothing. He knew what it was all about when he returned to the car and found the bag missing.
Web lottery fraud
Tabrez Ahmed, a resident of Muneshwara blocku00a0 lost Rs 10 lakh after he was promised a prize of $ 500,000.
Tabrez said he got an e-mail from one Daniel Brown in the UK announcing him as the winner of a UK-based online lottery.
Brown started off by asking Tabrez to pay Rs 12,530 as processing fee. The demands then started growing.
"I paid him a total of Rs 10 lakh at 12 different times. He promised to pay me the money soon after getting the amount," Tabrez said.
After a six-month wait, Tabrez filed a complaint with the police.
