Noida man promised refund, cheated of Rs 50,000

GREATER NOIDA: An unknown person was booked on Thursday for allegedly duping a 30-year-old manager of a real estate firm of Rs 50,000 on July 2.
The victim, Manoj Kumar Yadav, lives in Panchsheel Hynish society located in Greater Noida’s Surajpur area. Yadav told police that a few days ago, he had booked an air ticket for Mumbai from Delhi.
However, five days before the flight was scheduled to depart, he received a call from a toll free number and the caller identified himself as a staffer of the airline.
He informed Yadav that since it was continuously raining in Mumbai, the flight was cancelled. The caller then asked for Yadav’s bank account details to process the refund, but when he did so, he found Rs 50,000 was transferred from his account to some unknown account.
“The caller asked me to share my bank account details in order to receive a refund against the cancelled ticket, but when I refused, he said the company will give me an alternate booking in another flight and will also pay me Rs 5, 000 as a good will gesture,” said Yadav. “After a primary investigation by cyber cell, we have lodged a case under IPC Section 420 (cheating) and Section 66 of the IT Act. Efforts are being made to trace the accused,” said Muneesh Chauhan, the SHO of Surajpur police station. After a few minutes of process, the caller further asked Yadav to share his One Time Password that he had received on his mobile phone. “I shared OTP ten times as he kept saying that the transaction is getting failed every time. The 10th time when I shared the OTP, the caller told me that the money had been credited to my account and asked me to check my balance,” Yadav further said. However, when Yadav checked the his bank balance, he found that Rs 50,000 were transferred to an unknown account from his bank account.
Yadav immediately filed a complaint against the caller at Surajpur police station. However, the case was registered after police conducted a probe in the case.