<p> <br />Hotel Fortune Select on Cunningham Crescent Road, in a complaint to the High Grounds Police has stated that on November 29 last, one Tylon Palmu (24) of Broadgate, Coventry, United Kingdom, had booked a room in the hotel for 15 nights from March 30 to April 14, via e-mail (tyrone.palmers@yahoo.com). <br /><br />As advance payment, he submitted a credit card authorisation letter (371703850803016) and asked the hotel to deduct US$11,500 from it. Out of the amount, he instructed the hotel to transfer US$ 7,500 (Rs 3,20,260) to Global Creations, a travel agency in Mumbai. <br /><br />Accordingly, the hotel sent a cheque for the said sum drawn on ING Vysya Bank, Infantry Road branch, on December 14 as the travel agency did not have a credit card swiping machine. A day later, the American Express Banking Corporation informed the hotel that the said credit card belonged to one Cherie Lapelura and was not registered with it. <br /><br />The demand by the stunned hotel authorities for refund of the money remained unanswered. Their efforts to trace the travel agency in Mumbai also didn't materialise. <br />According to sources, Tylon Palmu is not the real name of the fraudster and it is also unclear whether he is a British national. A case has been registered.<br /></p>
<p> <br />Hotel Fortune Select on Cunningham Crescent Road, in a complaint to the High Grounds Police has stated that on November 29 last, one Tylon Palmu (24) of Broadgate, Coventry, United Kingdom, had booked a room in the hotel for 15 nights from March 30 to April 14, via e-mail (tyrone.palmers@yahoo.com). <br /><br />As advance payment, he submitted a credit card authorisation letter (371703850803016) and asked the hotel to deduct US$11,500 from it. Out of the amount, he instructed the hotel to transfer US$ 7,500 (Rs 3,20,260) to Global Creations, a travel agency in Mumbai. <br /><br />Accordingly, the hotel sent a cheque for the said sum drawn on ING Vysya Bank, Infantry Road branch, on December 14 as the travel agency did not have a credit card swiping machine. A day later, the American Express Banking Corporation informed the hotel that the said credit card belonged to one Cherie Lapelura and was not registered with it. <br /><br />The demand by the stunned hotel authorities for refund of the money remained unanswered. Their efforts to trace the travel agency in Mumbai also didn't materialise. <br />According to sources, Tylon Palmu is not the real name of the fraudster and it is also unclear whether he is a British national. A case has been registered.<br /></p>
