Mumbai, Jun 13 (PTI) In separate incidents, online women friends' cheated two city residents by persuading them to invest money in bogus schemes, police said on Friday. <br>In the first case, a 29-year-old manager with a private company who lives in Andheri received a marriage proposal on a matrimonial site fromMahi Agarwal'.
They started chatting online. The woman claimed that she was working in Malaysia with a firm dealing with cryptocurrency investment, said a police official.
At her insistence, the man opened an account on KuCoin exchange' and downloaded theBoost Base' app. Within a month, he invested Rs 32.88 lakh in cryptocurrency.
But when he tried to withdraw money on May 18, he was unable to do so.
On his complaint, a case was registered against unidentified persons at the West Region cyber police station.
In another incident, a 44-year-old man from Chandivali area received a friend request on Facebook on May 14 from one 'Priya Kumari'.
The woman, who claimed to be a fashion designer from Gurugram, chatted with him online and persuaded him to invest Rs 42 lakh in `share trading' through an app.
His so-called virtual account showed a balance of Rs 90 lakh, but when he tried to withdraw money, he was asked to deposit more money in the name of tax.
The man realised that it was a scam and approached police.
Probe is underway in both cases, the official said.