pune the nigdi police booked three persons including a woman for duping a nigdibased man to the tune of rs63000 on the promise of easy and cheap loans in august in his complaint alpesh nalawade 28 of akurdi alleged that the suspects claimed to work for the call centre of a private finance company nalawade told the police that he received calls from the suspects between august 21 and 29 he alleged that the suspects promised him a loan of rs4 lakh without too much hassle and also at alow interest he said they took his salary details and his requirement and made the offer nalawade who works in an automobile company in talegaon dabhade said he needed money for personal reasons and readily fell for the offer under the pretext of various processing fees the suspects gave him different bank account numbers and asked him to deposit the fees for them to process the loan during the course of three transactions nalawade made deposits ranging from rs1000030000 in those bank accounts for a total of rs63000 he endured a long wait for his rs4 lakh loan and when none seemed forthcoming he called up the company he realized too late that he was duped when no one responded to his phone calls he immediately approached the police to register a complaintin a similar case a youth from wakad lodged a complaint with the police station a few days ago alleging that three telecallers who also included a woman cheating him out of rs60000 by promising an easy and cheap loan of rs4 lakh much like the earlier case the youth claimed that the suspects demanded various fees to process his loan loan scams seem to be a lucrative source of money for fraudsters in july this year toi had reported that a 35yearold woman from kharadi was arrested for cheating at least 50 people on the pretext of helping them secure lowcost loans from a microfinance companythe woman collected processing fees between rs2000 and rs20000 from her victims who belonged to middle and lowermiddle class families wanting fundsearlier this month the deccan gymkhana police arrested a couple for duping an elderly woman running a business in the deccan area to the tune of rs125 lakh by promising her a loan of rs3 crore the suspects cheated her on two separate occasions separated by a few months the 63yearold woman wanted the a loan to expand her business and lives with her son in aundh