Deonar Police Probe Facebook Dress Scam That Cost Mumbai Nurse ₹1 Lakh

Overview

• A Mumbai nurse tried to buy a ₹299 dress from a Facebook ad and ended up paying ₹1 lakh over five days.
• The seller moved the chat to WhatsApp and kept asking for new fees for shipping, GPS, tracking, verification, and address checks.
• A person posing as a delivery agent joined the scheme to press for more payments that were promised as refundable.
• When no package arrived and no refund came, the victim called the Cyber Crime Helpline 1930 and lodged a complaint.
• Deonar police registered a case and said the fraud mirrors a wider pattern that uses social-media ads and messaging apps to extract money with repeated pretexts.