A Pune resident was allegedly duped of Rs 11 lakh after he responded to a bizarre online advertisement seeking a man to make a woman pregnant. The 44-year-old contractor believed that the offer was genuine, and ended up transferring money under various pretexts before realising it was a scam .
‘Rs 25 lakh. Want a man to make me a mother’
The man fell for the ad in the first week of September, but how? According to a report by The Indian Express , the man came across a video ad of an entity named ‘Pregnant Job’ on social media. In the video, a woman, when translated from Hindi to English, said, “I want a man who will make me a mother. I will give him Rs 25 lakh. I don’t care if he is educated or not, or to what caste he belongs or whether he is fair or dark.”
The man, apparently th

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