ahmedabad sangeeta name changed a thirdyear college student was in tears when she approached city police crime branch recently she told the cyber cell sleuths that she had posted her profile on a popular matchmaking site along with photograph and contact details through this medium she came in contact with a man claiming to be from welltodo family owning a website development company and having luxury cars they started chatting which later led to phone calls and dates the youth borrowed more than rs 60000 from the girl on various pretexts asked her to buy plane tickets and one fine day vanished she later realized that she had become victim of a cyber fraud recent case of a differentlyabled woman being blackmailed by a man from dhanbad after procuring her pictures in compromising position is not singular one in that case a 30yearold man exploited the opportunity of friendship with his victim who believed him and provided her contact details he wasted no time in establishing romantic relationship and also offered help to cure her disability more often than not it is women who become easy prey for the cyber frauds who seek potential victims on matrimonial social networking and professional networking sites said kiran patel a crime branch police inspector cyber investigators said that with advent of social networking sites especially facebook it has become very easy for an outsider to gather information about potential victim right from the birthday to place of work and school and college attended such information can be misused to make contacts a very easy method is to create a fake profile and start monitoring the movement of the future victim where he or she goes who are in their close circle and even what they eat and wear such information overload simply creates a data mine for a fraudster said a cyber crime expert the experts added that what is shocking is the fact that in most such cases both victims and accused are below 20 to 25 years of age in a recent case registered with city police a 16year old boy created a fake profile of a 16yearold girl on a social networking site on insistence of another accused an 18yearold boy the girl started getting lewd calls all of a sudden later she realized that someone had created her profile complete with photographs and contact details it was revealed after the duos arrest that the step was taken to avenge the girls refusal to go out with the boy said an official