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Chandigarh resident loses ₹1 lakh to swindler posing as friend
The complainant, a resident of Sector 10, Chandigarh, old the police that he received a WhatsApp call from a man posing as his friend on June 30
A Sector resident 10 lost ₹1 lakh to swindlers posing as an acquaintance.
In his complaint, Chandeshwar Yadav, who has been working as the caretaker of a house in Sector 10 for the last eight years as well as a painter, told the police that he received a WhatsApp call from a man posing as his friend on June 30.
The caller told him that he was sending ₹30 lakh to his account and sought his bank account details. He later told him that his friend’s daughter was under treatment so requested to further transfer the money into an account provided by him.
The complainant ended up depositing ₹1 lakh into the given account only to realise that he had been duped later.
A case under sections 419, 420 (both cheating), 467, 468 , 471 (all forgery) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered at the cybercrime police station.
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