Gurugram: Man poses as airline executive to con flyer of Rs 1 lakh

GURUGRAM: A Sector 45 resident was allegedly cheated of Rs 1 lakh by a fraudster who posed as a customer care executive of an airline and sought her ATM card details. An FIR has been registered at the cyber crime police station.
According to the complaint filed by Vibhuti Tiwari, she wished to change the date of an IndiGo flight which she had previously booked. “I searched for the customer care number of the airline on Google on March 26 and called the number I found there. The customer care executive asked me to share the SMS which I received on my mobile number. After I sent him the SMS, he asked me for the last six digits of my ATM card and its expiry date. When I refused, he assured me that I could share the details with him as he was an IndiGo executive,” she told police.
“He also asked me for my card’s PIN, and later the OTP which I received on my mobile phone. I realised that I had been cheated when I noticed that the accused had transferred Rs 1 lakh from my bank account to another in five transactions of Rs 20,000 each,” she said.
After receiving the complaint, the case was assigned to cyber crime police, who recommended the registration on an FIR on Saturday. An FIR was then filed against the unidentified accused under Section 420 (cheating) of the IPC and Section 66D (cheating by using computer resource) of the IT Act at cyber crime police station.
“We are trying to identify the fraudster,” said inspector Arvind Kumar, the investigating officer.