A smart gang of the fair sex!

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, AUG. 18. They are a bit good-looking, innocence personified, remarkably articulate and extremely smart. But they are neither sales girls nor students from a debating team of a college but a group on the prowl collecting money from gullible residents in the city.

Their modus operandi is simple. Each girl of this group spreads out in one locality, posing herself as one whose purse was snatched on landing in the city. They ask the people if they could spare a few rupees, preferably Rs. 20 or 30 so they could buy a return ticket to their native place.

Their articulation skills are best while trying to impress gullible people. And their innocence just cannot be suspected.

It is the opposite sex that is mostly targetted by the group as they instantly give out money to escape embarrassment or sometimes believing their claims to be genuine. To escape attention, they are aiming at people residing in apartments or individual houses in good localities.

On Friday, some of these girls were seen in the Marredpally area seeking money from residents repeating the same old excuse of losing their purses. And there were several who believed their stories and parted with their money. "I gave her Rs. 20 believing her claims to be true. But my friend who had come to meet me got suspicious of her actions and questioned her. Finally her claims turned out to be fake," said, Mr. Praveen, a resident of Marredpally.

Her game was up when she could not answer as to why she was seeking money in Marredpally and not in Secunderabad where she lost her purse. Moreover, the apartment she targeted was far away from the main road in Marredpally. "It's unbelievable that she could not get Rs. 20 from railway station to a locality away from the main road in Marredpally. There are lots of houses and shops in between," points out Mr. Praveen.

Interestingly, the same girl was seen in another apartment after an hour trying to impress the residents there. Some time ago, the attempts of a similar gang of girls, wearing mini skirts and speaking fluent English, collecting money for some charity organisation were foiled by the traffic police who grew suspicious about their activities. The gang suddenly disappeared after their photographs were published in some local newspapers.

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