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AURANGABAD: A city youth has been duped of Rs 30,000 by an unidentified person by offering a job in Dubai Navy after winning his confidence through a social networking site.

The city police's cybercrime branch said that this is the first instance where someone from Aurangabad was duped through a social networking site.

Saurabh Manikrao Savarkar (28) of Chetna Nagar has stated in his complaint with the Jawahar Nagar police station that the suspect sent him a friend's request, which he readily accepted, a few days back.

"The suspect boasted about his contacts with high-profile people, impressed the youth and even exchanged phone numbers with him," police said.

According to the police, during one of the calls, the suspect asked Savarkar if he was interested in joining Dubai Navy. After the youth expressed his willingness, the suspect sent an account number and asked him to deposit Rs 30, 000 for visa and ticket for Dubai.

Savarkar made an online transaction of the said amount in the account number shared by the suspect on February 9. However, he realised that he had been cheated as the suspect started avoiding him.

Assistant inspector Gajanan Kalyankar of the cybercrime branch said that usually, such modus operandi is used by Nigerian racketeers and that this is the first such case in the city.

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