Cyber Fraudsters loot lakh from Vendor outside Wave mall in Jammu
Jammu: In an incident of online fraud, a pan kiosk vendor who is resident of Uttar Pradesh and currently running his kiosk outside wave mall in Narwal of Jammu was duped of Rs 1.63 lakh by a cyber fraudster yesterday.
The report said that the cyber fraud happened when the cyber crook told the victim to make a payment of Rs 5 for confirmation to the delivery agent to get the parcel and thus looted money from his account in multiple transactions .
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Talking to the media, Mr Mahender Kumar, the victim, said: “My child received a call from a delivery agent who told him to pay Rs 5 as verification to get the parcel, after that Rs 1.63 lakh got stolen from my account”.
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“My friend told me that a delivery man will come and to receive my parcel I have to follow the delivery guy’s instructions”, the victim’s son said.
“After that the delivery agent called me and asked me to pay Rs 5 for the parcel verification then in the evening money from our account began deducting first 1 lakh, later Rs 65,000 and Rs 2500”, he added.
“The cyber fraudster used to study with me in a school in Jalandhar”, he alleged.
The cyber scammers Instagram user id is ‘Pankaj Dj gap’, and has written that he is a musician and a guitarist and has 14K followers, who is from Jalandhar, the report said.
“We have registered a police complaint at Narwal police station and another one at Cyber cell Jammu. The police has told us to come after some days to inquire about my matter”, said, Mr Mahender Kumar.
