AS CYBER scams go, this one is rather unique.
Men in India were being offered a job that sounded too good to be true: money - and lots of it - in return for getting a woman pregnant, reported BBC.
Apparantly the "All India Pregnant Job Service" was advertising on Facebook with a video to register to help childless women get pregnant.
One of the many victims, Mangesh, said once he had paid A$14 and signed up, he would be sent details of the woman he would have to impregnate.
They offered him half a million rupees (A$8,969) - almost three years' wages - just to have sex with the woman and promised further reward of 800,000 rupees (A$14,350) if she conceived.
"I'm a poor man, I desperately need money, so I believed them," the father of two young boys told the news publication.
Over the next couple of weeks, Mangesh was asked to fork out more than 16,000 rupees (A$287) - 2,550 rupees (A$45) to obtain some court documents, 4,500 rupees (A$80) as safety deposit and 7,998 rupees (A$143) as GST on the money he was going to get.
The scammers kept him interested by sending him photos of "seven-eight women", asking him to choose the one he would like to impregnate.
"They said they would book a hotel room in the town where I lived and I would meet the woman there," he said.
The promised money is on hold until he pays income tax on it...
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