So, in Bengaluru, there is still a case of online fraud: a 29-year-old software engineer gets cheated of more than ₹30 lakh into investing by a girl who introduced him on Internet dating apps to fake investments in the name of marriage.
The incident in New Tippasandra is almost five years old when the victim was duped into believing that he had to work by one agent. The engineer, whom he met on the Flutrr dating app in November 2025, was introduced to this woman named Anjali Kushlani, based in Mumbai.
The two began to communicate fairly frequently on WhatsApp; for the victim, she was very loving and even spoke to him about marriage. Because the engineer loved her so much that he believed in her, he started to plan which direction he would move.
The woman recruited the victim into online trading and investment to back it up and convince him that he would be making a lot of money for the startup and her business to work. He had faith in her to get him started with his initial ₹30,000 in his wallet, which was a small investment but promised a lot of profits to start up with.
Locked in these gains and convinced by the woman that he would not quit and that the decision-making process would not hurt him, the victim started to invest larger amounts. By December, he had invested around ₹5.6 lakh. The girl’s emotional pressure with promises of marriage helped him invest more, and she constantly suggested he marry.
The total investment was about ₹18.7 lakh, which was borrowed from friends and loans of the victim. When he hit hard times, all communication broke down, and the woman shut down, leaving him stranded and financially worse off.
When he found out he had been victimized in such a big scam, the engineer wrote a complaint to the East Cyber Crime Police Station. Then they decided to file the case based on the IT Act and Section 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
There have already been efforts by the police to find the accused and to unravel the fraud syndicate. “[The scam is likely to originate with cybercrime groups on dating sites and on social media, so this is a bigger problem,” said the chief prosecutor.
It’s indeed a case that underscores the ongoing risks in online investment and romance scams - fraudsters exploit emotional vulnerability to make money. People communicating with strangers on the internet will need to be cautious and look up information before investing money.
