INDORE: An Australian has been allegedly duped of $177,000 (around Rs 1.38 crore) by an Indorean who posed as a software developer and promised an agreement with a multinational technology firm, police said on Sunday.
The victim, Paul Shepperd, is suffering from terminal brain cancer, an officer said. Shepperd’s complaint, filed with Annapurna police station, says that he came in contact with the accused, Mayank Saluja, in 2018 while looking for someone to develop a video calling/conferencing web application.
