Lucknow: Woman entrepreneur duped of Rs 1 lakh while placing bulk order for toys on App

LUCKNOW: A woman entrepreneur Rekha Prajapati dealing in toys was duped of Rs 1 lakh, besides three others in the city in a span of 24 hours.
The three others were duped separately on the pretext of activation of credit cards.
Police said Rekha Prajapati, a resident of Wazirganj, had placed bulk order for toys from a Kolkata based company she found on internet on September 1 and was asked to download an App.
“After downloading the app I was asked to fill in my information. I kept following the series of instructions which popped on my mobile screen. After a minute, I got a message that Rs 1 lakh had been deducted from my bank account,” she said.
“I tried contacting the company, but failed and the webpage of the toy company was also deleted,” she said in her complaint on the basis of which a case was registered at Wazirganj police station.
In another case, one Aneeta Rawat of Balaganj in Thakurganj said she had applied for a credit card of a private bank.
“I was yet to activate the card when I got a message of withdrawal of Rs 36,360. I complained to the bank but they did not help me,” she alleged.
Similarly, in another case, one Virendra Kumar Bharti of Takrohi in Indira Nagar applied for a credit card, but did not get the PIN to activate the card. When he contacted the bank, he was told that the PIN will be sent on his e-mail.
“On September 1, I got a call from a woman who introduced herself as an employee of the bank. She asked me details of the credit card and a little later I got a message about Rs 50,000 cash being withdrawn,” he said.
Similarly, Rachna Srivastava of Triveni Nagar, a primary school teacher, got a call from a man who introduced himself as Zahir Ansari, a bank employee, and offered her a credit card. He asked her to send her bank account details so that he could link the card. “Rachna gave her details and got message of withdrawal of cash from her account,” police said.
ACP cyber cell, Vivek Ranjan Rai said the complaints were being worked out.