Sector 45 resident loses Rs 3L while trying to sell her dinner set online
Chandigarh: Little did Mehar Kaur Thind know that trying to sell her dinner set online would turn into her worst nightmare. Excited about having found a "buyer", who was ready to shell out Rs 20,000 for the set, she reportedly scanned the QR code the "buyer" sent her via WhatApp and ended up losing a whopping Rs 2.80 lakh.
The cyber police have booked unknown persons for allegedly scamming the Sector 45 resident. The cops are trying to trace the account to which the victim was fradulently made to transfer the said amount.
In her complaint to UT Police's
cybercrime
cell, Mehar said she had put up pictures of her dinner set online for sale. Later, a person contacted her and agreed to buy the set for Rs 20,000. The accused sent her a QR code via WhatsApp, asking her to scan it. When she scanned the QR code, Rs 80,000 was withdrawn from her bank account. The accused then pressured her to access her relative Rupinder Kaur's bank account and, under the pretence of completing the transaction, swindled Rs 1.99 lakh more. Therefore, a total of Rs 2,79,900 was fraudulently withdrawn from both accounts. The accused then stopped taking her calls, she said.
After realising that she was scammed, she lodged a complaint with the cybercrime police station and provided the details of the transactions fraudulently made by the accused from their accounts.
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