Navi Mumbai crime: A 56-year-old man from Navi Mumbai was allegedly duped of Rs 90,000 by online fraudsters on the pretext of providing an instant loan, police said
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Navi Mumbai crime: A 56-year-old man from Navi Mumbai was allegedly duped of Rs 90,000 by online fraudsters on the pretext of providing an instant loan, police said on Monday, reported the PTI.
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According to the news agency, The police in Navi Mumbai registered an offence under section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act was registered against unidentified persons at Kalamboli police station on Saturday, an official said.
The complainant, who works with a logistics company, claimed that he was seeking a loan for his daughter's education when he came across a post on Facebook about loans that were made available within two hours, he said, as per the PTI.
The complainant applied for a loan online with the finance company on November 8, and within minutes, he got a call in which the caller offered him a loan and asked him to pay insurance charges, GST, NOC charges, RBI charges and two advance instalments, totalling Rs 90,000, the official said, reported the PTI.
When the complaint did not receive the loan amount and was asked to make additional payments, he realised he had been cheated, he said, adding that a probe is underway.
Meanwhile, in an another similar incident in Thane, a 31-year-old family member of an MLA from Maharashtra's Thane district allegedly lost Rs 79,492 while trying to make online payment for sweets ordered from a shop, police said on Monday, according to the PTI.
On November 9, the victim ordered sweets from a shop in Bhayander area for which she had to make a payment of Rs 480, they said quoting the complaint.
After the victim placed the order, she received a QR code for payment.
When she tried to make the payment, she received a call purportedly from the sweet shop where the caller asked her to make some transactions for completing the payment which she did.
The victim later realised that Rs 79,012 was debited from her account in two instalments, besides the original payment of Rs 480, an official from Navghar police station said.
After the victim complained to the police, a case was registered on Friday against an unidentified person under Indian Penal Code section 420 (cheating) and provisions of the Information Technology Act, he said
(with PTI inputs)
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