Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 11

Two cases of online fraud were reported in the city today.

A complainant, Paramjit Simgh Battu of Sector 38 reported that unknown person called on his mobile phone regarding the verification of a new credit card and took details, including CVV number of his HSBC credit card and the OTP. He came to know someone had made three transactions of Rs48,480, Rs98,101 and Rs98,101 from his account.

A case has been registered at the Sector 39 police station.

In the other incident, a woman was duped of Rs80,000. A resident of Maloya complained to the police that a person promised her a job at the PGI, Chandigarh, and made her deposit Rs80,000. However, the suspect neither provided her job nor returned her money.

The police have registered a cheating case at the Maloya police station.