Woman loses Rs 55k to home delivery fraud

TNN | Apr 7, 2020, 04:12 IST

Ahmedabad: A woman from the Navrangpura area of city on Sunday filed a complaint with police alleging that she had lost Rs 55,000 to some online fraudster who duped her when she opted for home delivery of bread in the time of lockdown. In her FIR with Navrangpura police, Birwa Broker, 30, a resident of Lal Bungalow on CG road in Navrangpura, said that the incident took place on March 30.
Broker said that she had dialled a telephone number provider forum and sought the number of a bakery which could provide home delivery of bread. She got the number of a bakery shop on which she called and put an order for bread.
She said that the person who reieved the call for the bakery, told her that the shop was closed but he would provide bread to her doorstep. For this, the person told her to pay Rs 10 using a payment application. She first hesitated to pay the money but as she needed bread and the caller insisted, she paid Rs 10 through the payment application. After a while, she found that Rs 50,000 had been debited from her account. Later, she received another message of Rs 5,000 transaction from her bank account. Thus she ended up paying Rs 55,000 to unknown fraudster, states the FIR. The woman had then blocked her bank account and approached police.