Pune: Crook dupes techie of Rs 3 lakh in card update fraud

PUNE: The Samarth police are investigating a 26-year-old software engineer's complaint stating that an unidentified person duped him of Rs 2.97 lakh after calling him for a card verification and update in March.
The techie had filed a complaint application with the cyber police at that time. After preliminary investigation, a case was registered with the Samarth police on Thursday.
Inspector Pramod Waghmare told TOI that the complainant is a resident of Nana Peth and works at an IT company.
"In March, a man posed as an official from a private bank, contacted the complainant and told him that he was from the bank's credit card section located in Mumbai," the officer said.
The caller then gave the complainant details of the latter's credit card and told him that if he needs insurance cover for the card, he would have to pay Rs 40,000.
"The caller also gave him the option to not avail the facility," Waghmare said.
The caller then requested the complainant to share a code that he would receive on his cellphone.
"The techie did not suspect anything as the caller had given him perfect details of his credit card. He shared the number with the caller," the officer said.
But the techie regretted this soon after when he received messages from his bank that transactions worth Rs 2.96 lakh were made on his credit card. "Our probe is on," Waghmare added.
Card update frauds have become common in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad in the recent past. A 28-year-old employee of a private company lost Rs 1.98 lakh to cybercriminals in a credit card reward points fraud in August. He had clicked on a link sent by an unknown caller and filled in his credit card details to avail of 6,850 reward points.