MUMBAI: A senior section engineer with the Central Railway was recently cheated by cyberfraudsters who posed as executives from a financial company and tricked him into transferring money to them on the pretext of processing a loan.
The 50-year-old engineer registered a complaint with the Government Railway Police (GRP) at CSMT on September 6.
According to the complaint, the engineer was at work when he received a phone call on August 7.
The caller said he was an executive with a financial company and a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh had been approved for the engineer.
He then asked the engineer to download an app from Google Play Store. The engineer was unable to do so. At this, the caller asked if he used a digital wallet and then set across a link.
The caller said that the engineer was required to pay Rs 5,159.
The engineer believed him and followed all the instructions given by the cyberfraudster.
Within moments, three transactions took place and a sum of Rs 27,000 was debited from the engineer’s account. Furious, he got in touch with the fraudster and demanded a refund. The cyberfraudster claimed there was a server issue and he would get his superior to resolve the problem.
Now, another cyberfraudster joined the call and duped the engineer of another Rs 10,266.
Realising that the men were cheats, the engineer approached the police. GRP are looking for the accused.
The 50-year-old engineer registered a complaint with the Government Railway Police (GRP) at CSMT on September 6.
According to the complaint, the engineer was at work when he received a phone call on August 7.
The caller said he was an executive with a financial company and a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh had been approved for the engineer.
He then asked the engineer to download an app from Google Play Store. The engineer was unable to do so. At this, the caller asked if he used a digital wallet and then set across a link.
The caller said that the engineer was required to pay Rs 5,159.
The engineer believed him and followed all the instructions given by the cyberfraudster.
Within moments, three transactions took place and a sum of Rs 27,000 was debited from the engineer’s account. Furious, he got in touch with the fraudster and demanded a refund. The cyberfraudster claimed there was a server issue and he would get his superior to resolve the problem.
Now, another cyberfraudster joined the call and duped the engineer of another Rs 10,266.
Realising that the men were cheats, the engineer approached the police. GRP are looking for the accused.
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