Gurugram banking professional duped of Rs 67,000 online

According to the police, the incident took place on Friday afternoon when the victim received a text message on her phone, asking her to claim reward points worth Rs 8,897, which would otherwise expire, by clicking a link.

A banking professional has lodged a complaint with police, alleging that Rs 67,000 was fraudulently withdrawn from her account in multiple transactions after she received a text message asking her to claim reward points.

According to the FIR, four transactions of Rs 29,889.91, Rs 14,944.94, Rs 14,994.94 and Rs 7,472.47 were conducted through the card. (Picture for representation)

According to the police, the incident took place on Friday afternoon when the woman, a Sushant Lok-2, Sector 56 resident, received a text message on her phone, asking her to claim reward points worth Rs 8,897, which would otherwise expire, by clicking a link.

“I clicked the link and it opened a form, which asked for my card details. I put in the details as it warned me that if I don’t, I will lose Rs 8,897…(sic),” the woman stated in the complaint.

The woman’s husband said, “After some time, a sum of Rs 67,000 was withdrawn from my wife’s account.”

He said when they approached the bank to block the card, they were asked to lodge a police complaint.

The investigating officer, requesting anonymity, said transactions were made to an account in UK and police had written to the concerned firm.

A case was registered at Cyber crime police station on Saturday under sections 420 (cheating), 379 (theft) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 66 and 66 D of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008, police said.

On August 7, a Goa resident had alleged that Rs 2.3 lakh was fraudulently withdrawn from her savings bank account between April 28 and May 3 in multiple transactions, when she was on an official trip to China.

A zero FIR was registered at Ponda police station, South Goa, on July 10 and it was transferred to Sector 40 police station on August 7. The police lodged the case under section 379 (theft) of IPC and Section 66 D of IT Act.