Man buys ‘iPhone’ for ₹20K, gets glass shards inside pack
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.11.2019
A software engineer at Nandambakkan who thought he had got a great bargain when a man offered him a brand new iPhone for ₹20,000 on Tuesday was dumbstruck when he opened the sealed pack and found only shards of glass inside.
Police said Dinesh Kumar, 32, of Nandambakkam, met the conman when he visited a travel agency to change foreign currency he had taken for a visit abroad back into rupees. The conman introduced himself as a businessman and casually displayed a sealed iPhone pack saying he had bought the phone on a recent visit abroad. He offered to sell it for ₹20,000, saying he had got it at a bargain.
Dinesh Kumar fell for the spiel and afer exchanging his foreign currency at the firm gave the conman ₹20,000 and bought the phone without even opening the pack. The conman vanished with the cash soon after.
After a while, Dinesh Kumar opened the pack to admire his new buy only to find piece of glass inside. Realising he had been conned, Dinesh Kumar approached the Nandambakkam police and lodged a complaint.
The crime wing of the Nandambakkam police has registered a case and launched a hunt for the suspect. Police collected CCTV camera footage from the travel agency and are sifting through it.
Preliminary inquiries revealed the suspect had sneaked into the firm pretending to be a customer and sat on the sofa in the visitors area for some time. He then got talking to Dinesh Kumar who was waiting to exchange his foreign currency.
The conman introduced himself as a businessman and casually displayed a sealed iPhone pack saying he had bought the phone on a recent visit abroad
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.11.2019
A software engineer at Nandambakkan who thought he had got a great bargain when a man offered him a brand new iPhone for ₹20,000 on Tuesday was dumbstruck when he opened the sealed pack and found only shards of glass inside.
Police said Dinesh Kumar, 32, of Nandambakkam, met the conman when he visited a travel agency to change foreign currency he had taken for a visit abroad back into rupees. The conman introduced himself as a businessman and casually displayed a sealed iPhone pack saying he had bought the phone on a recent visit abroad. He offered to sell it for ₹20,000, saying he had got it at a bargain.
Dinesh Kumar fell for the spiel and afer exchanging his foreign currency at the firm gave the conman ₹20,000 and bought the phone without even opening the pack. The conman vanished with the cash soon after.
After a while, Dinesh Kumar opened the pack to admire his new buy only to find piece of glass inside. Realising he had been conned, Dinesh Kumar approached the Nandambakkam police and lodged a complaint.
The crime wing of the Nandambakkam police has registered a case and launched a hunt for the suspect. Police collected CCTV camera footage from the travel agency and are sifting through it.
Preliminary inquiries revealed the suspect had sneaked into the firm pretending to be a customer and sat on the sofa in the visitors area for some time. He then got talking to Dinesh Kumar who was waiting to exchange his foreign currency.
The conman introduced himself as a businessman and casually displayed a sealed iPhone pack saying he had bought the phone on a recent visit abroad
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