Panchkula, Aug. 2 -- Cyber fraudsters duped three Panchkula residents of nearly Rs.3.2 lakh in three separate incidents involving a fake Instagram handwriting job, an army procurement scam and a fake NRI marriage proposal. In the first case, a 20-year-old BA second-year student from Raipur Rani was allegedly duped of Rs.1.3 lakh after she responded to an Instagram advertisement offering a handwriting and book publication job. The fraudsters initially collected Rs.599 as registration charges and Rs.2,000 as delivery fees before demanding additional payments of Rs.10,000 and Rs.17,000 on the pretext of processing her earnings. They later persuaded her to share a one-time password (OTP), following which unauthorised transactions were made from her uncle's bank account. Even after promising refunds through fake payment screenshots, the accused demanded another Rs.50,000 before the victim realised she had been duped. In another case, Dharamender Yadav, a building material supplier from Pinjore, lost Rs.1 lakh after fraudsters posing as army officials placed a fake bricks order for an army camp in Kalka. After asking him to dispatch the consignment, the accused claimed that Rs.1.3 lakh had been mistakenly transferred to his account and pressured him to return the excess amount. Believing the claim, the complainant transferred Rs.1 lakh, only to later discover that no genuine payment had been credited and the bank transaction messages were fabricated. In the third incident, a 40-year-old woman from Haripur village in Sector 4 was allegedly duped of Rs.1.2 lakh by a man she met on Facebook. The accused claimed that he was based in the US. Claiming that he had sent her a parcel containing jewellery, clothes, and US dollars, he asked her to deposit money toward customs clearance and other charges through multiple UPI transactions. When the fraudsters demanded another Rs.1.6 lakh to release the parcel, she realised she had been cheated, following which she approached the National Cyber Crime Portal.htc...