Delhi women Premlata got deceived by a scammer over a phone call from anonymous caller falsefully claimed that her husband’s salary were lying with him and stated further that he was unable to transfer the same to her husband (Dharamveer’s) account and thereby sought Premlata’s assistance to complete the needful.as per Dwarka (Delhi) DCP Ankit Singh, the victim instantly received 2 messages after the call indicating deposit of Rs 20000 and another credit message of Rs50000. Fater which the caller got back to Premlata again pleading wrong transfer amounting to 50000 instead of 5000 and requested her to send back extra 45000 received. Trusting the caller, Premlata returned Rs. 45000.
After some time, when Premlata reviewed her account, she got devastated to see the discrepancies in account transactions. There weren’t any credits but a debit of Rs.45000.
Upon understanding she had been scammed online, she rushed to police and reported the incident. The police after initiating investigation of matter discovered that the messages of account credit transactions were fraudulent.
Later it was found that Premlata’s funds were vested to a Bharti Neena’s account. Questioning Meena, it came to knowledge that a man named Dhan Singh claiming to be Axis Bank’s employee promised Meena to secure a loan for her using her buffalo as a collateral. He also opened an account in Meena’s name and received her banking kit pretending that her loan application was rejected and resultantly her account was closed which wasn’t.
Interrogation of Dhan Singh established that he worked with Axis bank but was of late removed from Bank for fraud.
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Source: News 18
