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25-year-old loses ₹7 lakh while making online sale in Chandigarh
The complainant, Harnoor Kaur of Sector 44, is a student. She had put up an advertisement to sell her lehenga on an online marketplace
A 25-year-old lost ₹7 lakh to swindlers while selling one of her garments online, police said on Wednesday.
The complainant, Harnoor Kaur of Sector 44, is a student. She had put up an advertisement to sell her lehenga on an online marketplace. She was approached by a potential buyer, Shivam Kumar, who shared a bar code with her to send her the money. However, as soon as she scanned the code, ₹16,000 was debited from her account. She called the accused, who told her that his account had been blocked after the online transaction and asked her for her account number so that he could transfer ₹16,000 to it. He asked her to share the OTP sent to her number, after which she got a message that ₹6.74 lakh had been credited to her account.
Kumar asked her to transfer the excess money transferred to her account back to him. Assuming that the money had actually been transferred to her account, she sent the money to him. When she tried to contact him after transferring the money, she found that his phone was switched off. On contacting the bank, she learnt that the money she transferred to Kumar’s account was overdraft against her account.
A case was registered under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120B (Criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
