Mumbai, April 1: In what is believed to be an incident of online fraud, a woman in Mumbai was duped of Rs 75,000 by an unknown fraudster posing to be customer service executive. According to reports, a 26-year-old woman was a victim of this fraudulent activity after an unidentified cyber-fraudster scammed her for a whopping amount of Rs 75,000 posing to be an executive for an online shopping portal. A report by Hindustan Times informed that the Borivili police filed an FIR against an unidentified fraudster for the crime.  Mumbai: Woman, Who Was Duped, Visits Same ATM Everyday for 17 Days, Nabs Culprit. 

According to reports, the complainant purchased a saree for Rs 1,100 from an online shopping portal but when a defective piece arrived, she called company’s customer care. When the woman called the company’s customer care representative for a refund, she was asked to give her bank details. The woman was asked to send her bank account number and IFSC (Indian Financial System Code).

The HT report further informs that on March 25, the complainant received messages from her bank alerting her that Rs 75,000 had been withdrawn from her account. “The bank said my money was withdrawn from an ATM. That means the fraudsters cloned my debit card,” the complainant was quoted in the report.

According to a report by PTI, in 2017, over 1,700 cases of fraud related to credit/debit card and Internet banking with the extent of losses touching Rs 71.48 crore were reported.

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