Hyderabad: Man detained in connection with marriage scams

Komineni Vamshi Chowdary, also known as Krishna Vamshi, is a 38-year-old resident of the Chittoor district who was detained by the Cyberabad Cyber Crime Police for his involvement in a matrimonial fraud scheme that targeted widows and divorced women. The 38-year-old serial cybercriminal reportedly tricked a lady by pretending to be friends with her on a dating website.

Two smartphones, a forged rubber stamp, a forged Indian Customs paperwork, and a forged Google business ID card were taken from him by the police. Based on the allegation of a 35-year-old lady who lost her spouse to renal disease in 2008, they apprehended Vamshi. Through Shaadi.com, she made contact with the accused, who claimed to be a US-based employee of Google. Using WhatsApp, Vamshi deceitfully offered the victim and her family marriage.

Under the pretense of having conversations about marriage proposals, he conned her into a scam. Vamshi used US mobile numbers to stay in touch with the victim and her relatives. He told her, in an attempt to win her confidence, that he was traveling to Andhra Pradesh to persuade his parents to get married. Subsequently, he is accused of deceiving the victim and coercing her into providing her bank accounts for transactions. She trusted him enough to give him her gold and silver jewelry as well as her A/C credentials and debit cards from HDFC, Kotak Mahindra, and two ICICI banks. He gave many excuses.

During the incident, Vamshi tricked her and her family into thinking the scam was real, which cost the victim a significant amount of money. She became incommunicado after realizing that Vamshi had tricked her into marrying him for around Rs 1.8 crore. She decided to sue him as a result.

During their investigation, the police discovered that the accused had also misled the public by claiming to have connections to Indian customs, through which he could sell confiscated gold for a reduced price. According to the authorities, he constructed a forged paper that looked like a Part-VI declaration from Customs and attached fictitious stamps of the superintendent, deputy commissioner, and bonds officer that were made at Vijayawada on his orders. He traveled lavishly on tourist visas to Bangkok, Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia, and other places to live a wealthy lifestyle.