India, April 5 -- A 43-year-old woman from Bengaluru fell prey to a scam, losing more than Rs.86,000 while trying to book tickets for an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match. The woman wanted to book around 20 tickets for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) match that was scheduled last week.

She opted to book them from a Facebook page, and is said to have transferred thousands of rupees in a series of transactions to the scammer before realising she was not going to get the tickets after all, a report said.

The woman, identity unknown, approached the police shortly after the ordeal, who registered a complaint under two sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), relating to cheating by personation and...