puducherry cyber cell sleuths have launched a hunt for a gang of people who duped a woman in puducherry town of rs 525 lakh cash after promising a lucrative overseas job the gang members claimed to be a team from the french embassy in delhithe woman identified as jasleen mario said she had applied for overseas employment on various platforms and received an email from gerard mulliez on a prospective job on august 4 last year she contacted him over the mobile phone the next day and gathered details about the jobafter assuring her the job the man said vianne from the french embassy would contact her she received an email from a team claiming to be from french embassy in delhi on august 6 asking her to pay rs 36500 online as a processing fee she transferred the amount to the account number mentioned in the emailshe soon started receiving emails asking her to pay rs 64000 as the ielts exam fee rs 264 lakh as visa processing fee rs 87000 for getting antiterrorist certificate and rs 73400 to get the gate pass she paid all the fees online amounting to rs 525400 on various dates in august last yearshe waited for the offer letter and other documents to take up the overseas employment but she did not receive any offer letter her attempts to establish contact with the people who extended the job offer turned futile she lodged a complaint with cyber cellthe cyber cell registered a case against the unidentified gang of people under sections 419 punishment for cheating by personation and 420 cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property of the indian penal code and 66d punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resources of the information technology act 2000 and began investigations