A 24-year-old man from Maharashtra's Palghar district lost Rs 4.5 lakh to cyber fraudsters after he ran a Google search for the grievance handling helpline of a bank but ended up interacting with a fake website, an official told news agency PTI on Wednesday.

The complainant, a resident of Nalasopara on the outskirts of Mumbai, wanted statements of his account with a nationalised bank in connection with his admission to a UK university for a management course, reported PTI.