KANPUR, March 18 -- She thought she was talking to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. By the time Alison Weems, a retired teacher from Chakeri, realised the deception, Rs.1.57 crore had vanished from her accounts. What began with a single friend request in January 2025 unfolded into a 13-month-long fraud involving multiple fake identities, fake companies, and a fake lawyer-each layer more elaborate than the last, investigators said. Weems, who spent decades teaching at a Methodist school in Kanpur, reportedly believed she was entering a partnership to open a new school in the city. The impersonators allegedly posed as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and offered to invest in an educational venture, a pitch investigators say was tailored to her backg...