BENGALURU: A 68-year-old man from Whitefield lost Rs 7 lakh to cybercriminals on December 30 while trying to book a flight to Thiruvananthapuram. Rajendra (name changed) said he booked the ticket for January 18 through an app. He received a text message saying the payment hadn’t been received but he found Rs 7 lakh had been deducted from his bank account.
“I called the ticket booking firm’s customer care number on December 31. A person introducing himself as Deepak Kumar Sharma said he is unable to return the deducted amount due to technical problems. He asked me to provide another bank account number. I revealed only the last four digits of that number, yet I received several OTPs for bank transactions,” Rajendra said.
Whitefield police registered a case of cheating under various sections of IPC and IT Act.