Pune techie tries to buy wine online, loses Rs 96,000 to scamster

PUNE: The Yerawada police are probing a 25-year-old Kalyaninagar software engineer's complaint that an unidentified caller duped her of Rs96,902, when she tried to purchase wine online.
She told the police that she was surfing the internet to book a bottle of wine, when she came across a cell phone number on a website and called it to initiate the booking process.
"The person convinced her to reveal her debit card details and asked her to transfer Rs900 to book her order. He called back claiming that the money had not been transferred. He sent a QR code on a social networking site and asked her to transfer money via UPI," said inspector (crime) Uttam Chakre of the Yerawada police on Tuesday.
He added, "As soon as the techie scanned the QR code, she did not bother to check the amount and typed the one-time password. The crook gained access to her bank account and siphoned off Rs 96,902 from her bank account on October 10."
Chakre said, "The woman works for an IT company in Kalyaninagar. A native of Himachal Pradesh, she realized that she had been tricked after she received a text message stating that the huge amount had been debited from her account. She tried to get in touch with the crook, but his phone was switched off. The woman reported the matter to the cybercrime cell, which verified the same before forwarding it to the Yerawada police for registration of an FIR relating to cheating."
Preliminary investigations revealed that the crook transferred the money to a bank account in Alwar of Rajasthan, added the officer.