Mangaluru: Two men from the North East have been arrested for allegedly duping a woman of over Rs 21 lakh after luring her with the promise of providing her with foreign currency and an expensive gift, police said today.

The woman, Violet D Souza, who lodged her complaint at the Ullal police station had stated that she got a mail in the name of Royal Bank of Scotland, New Delhi, offering an expensive gift and foreign currencies and giving the procedures to be followed for this and the other expenses involved.

D'Souza also got a call on her mobile later with the offer which appeared to be convincing, so she transferred Rs 21,58,200 to the account number given by the accused persons.

The woman filed the complaint with the police on May 31 after she realized that she had been cheated.

Police said that further investigations revealed that the accused had created a fake website to cheat gullible victims.

A police team led by Ullal police inspector K R Gopikrishna traced the accused, Lalthan Mawia (34), of Mizoram and Khup Boih (32) of Manipur, to Vikaspuri in New Delhi and arrested them on June 10.