‘Good Samaritan’ in Gurugram swaps woman’s ATM card with fake, withdraws Rs 70K

According to the police, the incident took place on July 4 around 8.15pm when the victim and her partner had gone to deposit Rs 3,000 cash in the ATM of a private bank in Gurugram’s Sector 10A.

A woman was allegedly duped of Rs 70,000 by a man who offered to help her get a receipt for an ATM transaction, but instead swapped her ATM card with a fake, the police said on Tuesday.

A woman was allegedly duped of Rs 70,000 by a man who offered to help her get a receipt for an ATM transaction. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

According to the police, the incident took place on July 4 around 8.15pm when the victim and her partner had gone to deposit Rs 3,000 cash in the ATM of a private bank in Sector 10A.

In the police complaint, she stated after depositing the cash, when she was about to exit the kiosk, a man standing next to her asked her to take the receipt from the machine.

“He said I should take the receipt and offered to help me. He asked me to hand over my ATM card and swiped it. Then, he switched it with a replica of my card and gave it to me. I did not notice it (the card) was a different one at the time,” she stated in her complaint.

“The bank officials informed her that she was using a different card. In her bank statement, she found out that over the past week Rs70,000 had been withdrawn from her account through several transactions,” said a police officer privy to the investigation, requesting anonymity.

The woman filed a police complaint on Monday. A case was registered against unidentified accused man under sections 379 (theft) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code at Sector 10A police station.