GURUGRAM: Two residents have fallen victim to cyber crime and separate cases have been registered at Sector 65 police station. While in the first cases, a man named Krishan Lal was cheated of Rs 59,300 by someone pretending to be a bank employee, the other case saw a man being cheated on the pretext of KYC verification for his Paytm account.
In April, Krishan Lal received a call from a man posing as a bank employee, who allegedly knew Lal’s account number and bank branch. “He said he is modifying my debit card and asked for the card number and OTP following which he made two transactions from my account for Rs 50,000 and Rs 9,360,” the complainant said.
In the other cases, the victim, in January, had received a message through SMS to update his KYC for his Paytm account. “Upon calling on the number mentioned in the SMS, I was asked to download an app — Quicksupport — from playstore. I was asked to send a minimal amount using the app , following which Rs 1,49,998 fot debited from my account,” the complainant told police.
Following investigation, over the months, the cyber crime forwarded the case to Sector 65 police station on Monday. “An FIR under Section 420 of the IPC has been registered in Lal’s case and a separate FIR under sections of fraud has been registered in the second case,” an officer with the Sector 65 police station said.