Sri Lanka, Feb. 13 -- Two suspects including a woman have been arrested by the North Western Province Unit of the Computer Crime Investigation Division (CCID) for their alleged involvement in two instances of financial fraud.

The arrests followed investigations into complaints regarding a scam in which women were defrauded of money after being promised earnings through an online business, police said.

Investigations into one complaint revealed that a female victim had been deceived in a fraud amounting to Rs. 3,141,967. Of this sum, Rs. 200,000 had been fraudulently credited to a bank account held in the female suspect's name. It was further revealed that she had sold the bank account to an unknown party for a fee to facilitate the frau...