Rs1.75 lakh gone in minutes
Manish K Pathak / DNA
February 6, 10:00 IST
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Mumbai: In a recent case of online fraud, a conman transferred Rs1.75 lakh from the account of a Kandivli resident to his own after blocking his mobile number and activating it in a blank SIM card. This the culprit did to stop an SMS alert going to the victim about the transaction.
Chinmay Das lodged a complaint at the Samta Nagar police station a month ago alleging an unknown person blocked his SIM card in connivance with the telecom service provider and transferred the money from his account into his own.
Das said he called his bank but the officials there told him that the money had already been transferred to accounts in UP and Rajasthan.
“The fraudster opened several accounts with fake documents. We got a few addresses and tracked down some of the people in whose names accounts had been opened. They weren’t even aware of it. Some of them were daily-wage labourers who can’t even read and write,” said inspector LG Shinde.
“We also found a link of foreign national who was living in a hotel at Delhi. A police team went there and found he had already left the country. It’s not clear if he was involved or someone used his documents.”
