Facebook friendship turns into theft tale

NEW DELHI: Think twice before accepting friend requests from unknown people on Facebook.

NEW DELHI: Think twice before accepting friend requests from unknown people on Facebook.

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A Delhi resident learnt it the hard way when he invited a Facebook friend over for a party and woke up the next day to find his prized possessions gone.

The Delhi Police have arrested a 27-year-old scrap dealer, who, in the last one year, befriended 10 people using fake profiles and robbed them clean after a night of boozefuelled party at their homes. After every theft, he sold off the loot on OLX and deactivated the profile and mobile phone number he had used to contact his victim.

The law caught up with Imran alias Sonu after Kishan Gopen Meitei from north Delhi’s Timarpur filed a police complaint in the second week of May.

Meitei said he became friends with Sonu in March and used to chat with him regularly on Facebook’s messenger app. A fortnight ago, Sonu suggested the two meet for a night of drinking and Meitei agreed to host the party at his house, which he shared with a friend.