From NASA suits to cancer cure, tricks Delhi conmen use to dupe 5,000 people every year

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In Delhi, if you meet a person or receive an offer that’s too good to be true, then beware! The chances are that you may be the next victim of gangs that cheat more than 5,000 people in the city every year.

From hazmat suits used by NASA to herbal seeds that cure cancer to mercury powder that converts paper to dollar bills and rare snakes with medicinal properties — the cases busted by Delhi police show that cons in Delhi often offer to sell anything and everything under the sun.

It isn’t just selling. Some conmen also actively take part in their confidence trick with a few doing it well enough to keep the act up for months. An example in point is a west Delhi resident who posed as an Intelligence Bureau official in front of his wife for over 10 years. In September last year, the 32-year-old man was finally caught while loitering around in the compound of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) headquarters in Delhi. Police found a forged identity card from him. The man shocked his interrogators when he revealed that for the last 10 years, he had lied to his family by telling them that he worked as a spy.

“The man had not found a job. Ten years ago, he had told his father that he got a job at the IB. Even at the time of his marriage, he had told his wife that he could not discuss his job profile because he was with the intelligence bureau,” an officer said.

Conmen posing as cops in the city is common. One manages to earn a few bucks, extorting small amounts from couples in parks and squatters while posing as a policeman. There have been at least two recent cases of men posing as senior bureaucrats in the Prime Minister’s Office.

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