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Woman, 2 others blackmails 60-year-old Mumbai man, extorts Rs 36.89 lakh from him by threatening to disclose his affair to his wife | Mumbai News

Woman, 2 others blackmails 60-year-old Mumbai man, extorts Rs 36.89 lakh from him by threatening to disclose his affair to his wife | Mumbai News

A 60-year-old man from Kandivali (West) has lodged a police case against a woman he was dating, her daughter and her daughter’s friend for allegedly blackmailing him by threatening to tell his wife about his affair and then extorting money and valuables worth nearly Rs 37 lakh from him. The Kandivali police arrested the woman’s daughter’s friend on Friday and are looking for the mother-daughter duo. According to police sources, the 60-year-old, who works with a real estate company, was in touch with the accused woman for the past few months, and the two were in a relationship. The woman, her daughter and her daughter’s 21-year-old friend then started blackmailing him. As per the police complaint, the accused youth robbed Rs 14,500 cash from the complainant at knife-point while dropping him at his house on August 23. “The trio between August and December extorted money from the elderly person by threatening to tell his wife about his illicit relationship. By blackmailing and threatening to kill him, they extorted Rs 30.88 lakh in cash, Rs 3.98 …

Hoping to find gay partner on dating app, Mumbai man loses Rs 10 lakh to cyber fraud | Mumbai News

A 28-year-old man working for a five-star hotel in Mumbai has lost nearly Rs 10 lakh to a cyber fraudster who posed as a doctor from Texas in the United States and cheated the man while he was looking for a gay partner on an online dating platform. The Meghwadi police registered a case on Friday based on the complaint of the man from Jogeshwari (East)and began a probe. In January, while using the dating app he downloaded a year ago, the complainant received a message from Ramos Bennard, who claimed to be a doctor living in Texas. He befriended the complainant and also shared some of his pictures. After two or three days, Bennard shared a phone number, and then the two started conversing on WhatsApp. On January 30, Bennard asked the complainant to help him visit popular tourist places in India during his vacation starting on February 5. Bennard sent photos of an expensive wristwatch, claiming he wanted to gift it to the complainant and was bringing it to India. On February 5, …