Mumbai: An employee of a pharmaceutical company has recently been cheated by Rs 2.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters who posed as an official of a cellular service provider company and connects it to transfer money.
The executive then approached the Bandra Police Station and filed a complaint.
The 58-year-old complainant stated that he received a text message asking him to call the cellular service provider and immediately update the KYC document.
Text messages have numbers mentioned in it.
Not suspicious, the complainant turns the number.
A man answered and identified himself as an employee of a cellular service provider.
He asked for a complainant to the debit card and the details of net banking as part of the ‘KYC procedure’.
Complainants share the same thing.
Within minutes, a number of RS2.5 Lakh was deducted from a complainant bank account in a series of nine transactions.
He then realized that he had been cheated and approached the bandra police.
In a separate case, a writer who tried to sell his used furniture online was tricked by RS40,000 by cyber fraudsters who posed as potential clients.
A pine was registered by Goregaon police on December 21.
The 30-year-old complainant gave advertisements who wanted to sell their beds and cabinets.
He received a call from potential buyers who expressed interest in buying his furniture.
Fraudsters sent him a QR code scanned by the author.
As soon as he did this, a number of Rs 10,000 were debited from the author’s bank account.