This story is from August 15, 2019

Aurangabad: IT professional falls prey to online fraud, loses Rs 11,000

A conman, who has a track record of duping people via online transactions in North India, has cheated an IT professional from the city of Rs 11,000 in three installments in a span of few minutes.
Aurangabad: IT professional falls prey to online fraud, loses Rs 11,000
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AURANGABAD: A conman, who has a track record of duping people via online transactions in North India, has cheated an IT professional from the city of Rs 11,000 in three installments in a span of few minutes.
A youth identified as Nandu Reddy put up an advertisement of a gym cycle, which he wanted to sell, on an e-commerce website. The suspect, who has put up a photograph of a CISF jawan as the profile picture of his account on the e-commerce website and goes by the name of Shrikant Pande, expressed interest in purchasing the cycle.
The suspect contacted Reddy and the deal was sealed at Rs 7,000.
A not-so-tech-savvy Reddy approached his cousin Yogesh Bohare, an IT professional, to do the online transaction. Bohare contacted the suspect on the given cell phone number, following which the latter asked for the UPI pin number for transferring the money in his bank account.
After Yogesh shared the number, he received a notification seeking his consent for debiting Rs 5,000. He immediately contacted the suspect, who assured him that the amount was being credited. However, instead of Rs 7,000 being credited, Rs 5,000 got deducted from Yogesh’s account.
Yogesh again contacted the suspect who won his confidence stating that he would not only receive Rs 7,000 for the cycle in his bank account, but also get the Rs 5,000 that was mistakenly deducted.
Ater some time, Yogesh again received a notification seeking permission to debit Rs 5,000. After the second deduction, he contacted the suspect who squarely put the blame on the application for the deductions.
The suspect assured to pay the whole amount online and this time, sought his debit card details including CVV number. With that, the suspect made another transaction of Rs 1,000.
Realizing that he has been cheated after the third transaction, Yogesh lodged a complaint with the cyber-crime police.
An officer of the cybercrime police said that since the suspect cheated the victims of a few thousand rupees, the victims do not feel the need to register complaints. Even the police did not take extra efforts in nabbing the suspect. “The suspect may have cheated innumerable people in a similar fashion in the last couple of years,” said the officer.
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