Rajkot: Not all will be as fortunate for Porbandar men who regain Rs 1 lakhnya that Cybercriminal has cheatedly withdrawn from his bank account when he tries to restore a broken earphone bought from the e-commerce web portal.
According to the police, the Mayor of Gohel, who worked with private companies, had ordered earphones set from e-commerce portal last month.
But because the pieces were broken he contacted the portal and put a request to return it.
On November 29, Gohel got a call from someone who claimed to be an e-commerce company executive.
The executive told Gohel that he needed to pay the nominal fee of RS 3 to restore damaged earphones.
After Gohel agreed to pay the number, the caller sent him a link in the form of an SMS and asked him to fill the details.
Gohel did as ordered and also activated similar links from two numbers.
Immediately after Gohel completed the activation process, RS 99,999 was debited from his bank account in two parts.
This was when Gohel realized that he had been cheated, and approached Cybercrime cells from the police.
Porbandar Cybercrime Sub-Inspector Subhash Odedara said, “Once a complainant approaches us, we trace relationships and cancel the transaction.
The complainant gets back the money.
Now we trace the defendant using a telephone number.”