Ahmedabad: A 49-year-old builder from Jagatpur has filed a complaint with cybercrime police stating that scammers stole Rs 4 lakh from his account when he was transferring funds through a banking app. Satish Patel, the complainant, said in his FIR filed on Monday that he often uses his daughter Fenny’s account to transfer money.
Patel was transferring Rs 4 lakh to his partner’s firm from his daughter’s account using the app when he received a message from an unknown number asking for his PAN card details. He filled the details three to four times, but the transaction failed.
After a while, Fenny received a call from an unknown man who told her to download a link to update the PAN card details. Patel clicked the link and filled the details and received OTP thrice, which he entered into the app.
But even then the transaction did not go through. Patel said that later some other man called Fenny and told her to download another app. This time, Patel realized that he was being duped and did not download the app. Later, he found that Rs 4 lakh had been debited from his account.
Cybercrime police have filed a complaint of cheating under the IPC and have also invoked the Information Technology Act.
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