The proprietor of a cell phone store in south Mumbai fell sufferer to a cyber fraud the place the fraudster posed as an government from a courier service for disclosing his financial institution particulars to withdraw Rs 1.48 lakh from his account. cheated on her.
The 32-year-old complainant approached the MRA Marg police on 6 September. He instructed the police that he runs a cellular store within the Fort space and ceaselessly makes use of courier service to ship cell phones to prospects.
On September 4, he tried to ship a cellular by courier and known as a quantity, allegedly of VFast courier service, which he acquired from the web. It turned out to be the variety of the fraudster who then requested the store proprietor to pay a token cost of Rs 2 for courier service and despatched him a hyperlink to take action.
The complainant clicked on the hyperlink and entered his financial institution particulars alongside together with his UPI PIN. He acquired a message from the financial institution that Rs 2 has been deducted from his checking account. But even after making the cost there was no response from the complainant. However, he downloaded the VFast courier utility and availed its service.
Two hours later, the complainant realized that he had been duped by the individual sending the hyperlink as he had obtained a number of textual content messages on his telephone displaying {that a} complete of Rs 1.48 lakh had been deducted from his account.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
