Padra trader loses Rs 2L to cyber frauds

Vadodara: A wholesale vegetable trader in Padra was conned by cyber frauds under the pretext of completing know-your-customer (KYC) procedure of a mobile payment application.
According to the trader, Ketan Patel, he received a call from an unidentified number on March 31 asking him to finish KYC procedures of his PayTM account. The accused asked Patel to download an application called QuickSupport on his mobile phone. The application allows a person to remotely access any person’s mobile phone from any part of the world.
Later on the conman’s instruction, Patel shared details of his two debit cards on the application. As he started receiving one-time passwords (OTP) on his mobile phone, Patel shared them with the accused. Immediately, Rs 1.8 lakh got siphoned off from Patel’s bank accounts. Patel told cops that he uninstalled the QuickSupport application, but the damage was done by then.
Next day, he gave an application to the police to inform about the fraud that had happened with him. Based on the complaint and documents submitted by Patel, an offence of cheating and under the Information Technology Act was registered at Padra Police Station on Saturday.
In the past too, several persons using the mobile payment applications have been cheated similarly.