Delhi: Man duped twice trying to buy car from online portal
Somreet Bhattacharya | TNN | Updated: Mar 20, 2019, 08:58 IST
Representative imageNEW DELHI: An employee of a private company was cheated twice in a row while trying to buy a car through an online portal. The crook, posing as a CRPF jawan, convinced the man to transfer Rs 1.25 lakh through a phone wallet for the WagonR car and then disappeared.
The victim, Ashok Kumar, tried to retrieve his money by contacting the customer care of the wallet firm on a number mentioned on the internet. A man posing as an executive asked him to give his bank account number in which the money could be returned. However, soon after revealing the information the man lost another Rs 70,000. He then approached Vasant Vihar police station and a case of cheating was registered.
When Kumar contacted the car owner on the portal, the alleged CRPF jawan sent his photograph and ID card as proof. He claimed that he was selling off the car as he had been transferred. When Kumar asked him to show the car, he claimed that it was parked at the airport parking lot. He then asked Kumar to send half the price to his account after which he would send someone with the car to his address.
After the money was transferred, the man called him again asking him to transfer the rest of the amount. “I borrowed the money from a friend and gave it to him. When the car didn’t arrive at my address, I went to the airport parking lot and found that no such car was parked there,” said Kumar.
A few hours later, he found that the car had been put up for sale again at double the price. “The number from which the man had called was operational, but no one picked up when I called. I then called the customer care number, but was duped again,” said Kumar. He claimed that the mobile number of the suspects was operational even after the case was registered.
The victim, Ashok Kumar, tried to retrieve his money by contacting the customer care of the wallet firm on a number mentioned on the internet. A man posing as an executive asked him to give his bank account number in which the money could be returned. However, soon after revealing the information the man lost another Rs 70,000. He then approached Vasant Vihar police station and a case of cheating was registered.
When Kumar contacted the car owner on the portal, the alleged CRPF jawan sent his photograph and ID card as proof. He claimed that he was selling off the car as he had been transferred. When Kumar asked him to show the car, he claimed that it was parked at the airport parking lot. He then asked Kumar to send half the price to his account after which he would send someone with the car to his address.
After the money was transferred, the man called him again asking him to transfer the rest of the amount. “I borrowed the money from a friend and gave it to him. When the car didn’t arrive at my address, I went to the airport parking lot and found that no such car was parked there,” said Kumar.
A few hours later, he found that the car had been put up for sale again at double the price. “The number from which the man had called was operational, but no one picked up when I called. I then called the customer care number, but was duped again,” said Kumar. He claimed that the mobile number of the suspects was operational even after the case was registered.
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