A 35-year-old car driver from Jogeshwari West in Mumbai was allegedly duped of Rs 1.95 lakh after unknowingly downloading a fraudulent mobile application shared on a WhatsApp group.

The complainant, Shoaib Mohammad Ghulam Hussain Sheikh, a resident of Gulshan Nagar, told police that on August 28, around 9.30 am, he received alerts of three suspicious debits from his bank account: Rs 59,935, Rs 99,000, and Rs 37,000.

He immediately contacted the bank to block his account and later approached the police with a transaction statement. During checks, police found a hidden application named Traffic Challan App on his phone.