Two lakhs fourty thousand rupees fraud from two people by cheating through telephone calls! An inciden J/Vaddukoddai police division..

Two from Jaffna Sithernkeny area and Sangarathai Thunvi area have lost a large sum of money by some who had contacted with them.

In respect of this incident it is said that some unknown mysterious persons had called a woman from Sithernkeny and gave her an information that she had won a a big amount of money in lottery and can help her to collect the money if she deposits one lakh and 90 thousand rupees in the bank to a certain number.

Following this telephone call the woman after pawning some of her jewels she had deposited and when she again tried to contact the mysterious number, she found to her shock that it was disconnected.

Likewise a man from Sangarathai Thunavi also got a fake call saying he has got a valuable package from abroad and to withdraw the it he has to deposit 60,000 rupees in Sambath Bank to an account. He also deposited the said money and when he tried to contact the unknown number he found that it was already disconnected.

Now it is learnt that both parties who had lost their money to those mysterious people, have made a complaint to  Vaddukoddai police