Mysore : A couple was looted of gold worth lakhs of rupees by a youngster after promising a site here recently. The Saraswathamma, Siddappa couple were the one who were easily cheated by a fraudster.
The couple had easily believed a young man who arrived in a car to their house and invited him in and held talks mistaking him for an officer. He lured the couple with his sweet words, took them to Vijayanagar and showed them a site stating it has been allotted to them. He then dropped the couple back home. There the couple decided to immediately have the site and thought of pledging gold in a bank to pay for the site. They came back and sat in the car with the gold bag, when the youngster asked them to get their pension book. As the couple in a haste rushed in, the youth had fled the scene with the gold safely in the car.
The couple immediately lodged a complaint with the Jayalakshmipuram police who have launched a search for the fraudster.