The Maharashtra cyber police are on the lookout for unknown persons who duped a 55-year-old man of Rs. 80,000 through a fake travel website.
According to Kasturba Marg police, the complainant, who works as a clerk at a petroleum company, wanted to take his family on a tour to Malaysia and Singapore. He started searching for the best deals being offered by tour agencies on the internet.
He visited shiningstartrip.com and called on a contact number mentioned on the website. The fraudster offered the complainant a trip to Malaysia and Singapore for seven nights and eights days for three persons at a price of Rs.2 lakh. The accused said that he would also arrange for the visa and air tickets. He instructed the complaint to transfer Rs.80,000 as advance payment to get the visa and air tickets and asked him to mail all the relevant documents.
