India, Aug. 5 -- A 65-year-old businessman from Powai lost Rs.52 lakh after an allegedly Japanese woman he befriended online convinced him to invest in Bitcoins and duped him in a cybercrime fraud for a month. The West Cyber police had initially received his complaint, and as the defrauded amount was less than Rs.1 crore, they forwarded it to the Andheri police station, which registered a case against the woman and her accomplices on Saturday.

According to the complaint, the businessman received a Facebook friend request from an unknown person in June. The profile had a woman's photo and displayed her employment with IBM in Hong Kong. Believing it to be genuine, the complainant accepted her request, and the two began communicating throug...