This story is from November 2, 2019

Patna SP falls victim to online fraud

The SP told TOI over the phone on Friday that he had purchased a cellphone for around Rs 11,000 by availing the festival sale offer of an e-commerce giant.
Patna SP falls victim to online fraud
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PATNA: Patna rural SP Kantesh Kumar Mishra has become the latest victim of online fraud as a cellphone he bought through an e-commerce firm's mobile app to gift to his younger brother at Jamshedpur turned out to be two heavy pieces of stones.
The SP told TOI over the phone on Friday that he had purchased a cellphone for around Rs 11,000 by availing the festival sale offer of an e-commerce giant.

"I had used the firm's mobile app to purchase the cellphone on October 14 as heavy discount was being offered. The cellphone's actual price was somewhere around Rs 14,000, but I bought it by paying Rs 11,000 using my debit card," he said.
Mishra said he had purchased the cellphone to present it as gift to his younger brother Satish Mishra who lives at Sonari in Jamshedpur.
"The consignment reached my brother's residence on October 28. However, he was shocked to find two heavy pieces of stones stuffed inside a cellphone packet. The matter was immediately brought to the notice of the delivery boy, but he said it was beyond his jurisdiction. He suggested my brother to lodge a complaint with the firm's customer service desk," the SP said.
Mishra said his brother later lodged an FIR with Sonari police station on October 30.
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