Chandigarh: Online cheats dupe MP's private secretary of Rs 80,000

CHANDIGARH: Online fraudsters have duped the private secretary of MP Kirron Kher of Rs 80,000 on the pretext of activating his debit card, police said on Thursday after registering a cheating case.
Oma Kant Tiwari, the MP’s private secretary, said in his police complaint, “I had received a new debit card on January 20, 2019, but did not activate it. Later, I received a phone call from a man who introduced himself as Rajbir Singh, an employee of SBI Bank. Promising to activate the debit card, he sought my bank account as well as the card details. After I gave him the information, I started receiving messages of withdrawal of money from my account. First, Rs 49,500 were withdrawn and then Rs 9,999 each in subsequent three transactions.”
After receiving the messages, Tiwari, a resident of Phase VI, Mohali, contacted the bank officials and got his ATM card and account blocked.
Even as he had filed a cheating complaint at SSP public window on January 21, 2019, the police registered an FIR on Thursday after verifying the facts.
On September 5, 2019, police had booked four persons of Uttar Pradesh for duping the UT DGP’s cook of Rs 17.18 lakh after promising him huge profits on an investment in a radio taxi company.
On September 4, 2019, online fraudsters posing as SBI employees had cheated retired Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court Manmohan Singh Liberhan, a resident of Sector 9, of Rs 2.25 lakh after obtaining his bank details. The retired Chief Justice had led the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission for 17 years.