If you get a call from a mobile company stating that you won a free recharge, it may be too good to be true. A Bandra-based businessman, who incidentally also sells mobile recharge from his garment shop, was swindled by a caller posing as a representative of a mobile service company, who asked him to call a number to get a free recharge worth Rs 5,000. As the businessman called on the number, the Rs 1,333 credit on his phone was fraudulently transmitted to two numbers from Jharkhand. The man has now approached the Cyber Crime Cell of Mumbai police.

Called and conned: Sanjay Makhija was duped of Rs 1,400 by a caller posing to be a phone company executive. Pic/Shadab Khan