Cyber cell helps woman escape from being duped of Rs 91,000

NAGPUR: The cyber cell unit of city police helped a 24-year-old woman get Rs 90,979 refunded from an e-commerce company, after the amount got deducted from her credit card balance on Wednesday. A Jharkhand-based cyber crook nearly duped the woman with a phishing call, but she promptly approached the cops, who helped get the amount refunded.
The woman received a message that an amount of Rs90,979 was deducted from her credit card balance. This was shortly after she had shared her banking details and also a one-time password (OTP) with a telecaller, who posed as a representative of the bank’s credit card department.
The woman was allegedly lured by the cyber crook to share her banking details to increase the credit limit by Rs1 lakh.
After she shared her personal banking details, the crook downloaded a mobile application (app) for making purchases. He later generated an OTP, and urged the cardholder to share it with him. As she shared the OTP, the crook is learnt to have placed orders of various merchandizes on the e-commerce company’s website.
The cyber cell team, under DCP Shweta Khedkar and addl CP Nilesh Bharne, immediately contacted the nodal officer of the e-commerce company and generated a request mail stating the police complaint filed by the cardholder.
The e-commerce company had received the payment through the app, but cancelled the orders placed online and refunded the amount.