Gurugram, Apr 9 (PTI) A man has been duped of more than Rs 70,000 on the pretext of settling a loan he had taken from a non-banking finance company, police said here on Tuesday.

In a police complaint, Sunil Kumar Raghav, a resident of Bhondsi, said that he had taken a loan of Rs 5 lakh from a non-banking finance company and was repaying it in instalments.

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Recently, he searched the customer care number of the company on Google to talk to the firm's representative and settle the loan, a police officer said, adding that Raghav called the number and spoke to a person who gave him another phone number to talk to another official.

"Following a telephonic conversation with the official, I got an email in which I was asked to deposit Rs 70,401 in a bank account for loan clearance. I deposited the amount in the given account number and later got calls asking me to deposit more money," Raghav said in his complaint.

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Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered at the Cyber Crime police station in South Gurugram on Monday and an investigation has been initiated, the police officer said.

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