Jalna bizman cheated of Rs 7.61 lakh, fraudster uses victim’s credit card to withdraw money

Aurangabad, DEC 4: The Kadim Jalna police registered a case against an unidentified fraudster from Gurgaon, Haryana for withdrawing Rs 7.61 lakh by using the credit card of a businessman.

According to the police, the businessman, Prasad Prabhakar Deshpande, a Jalna resident, lodged a complaint with the Kadim Jalna police stating that on November 11, he had received a call from the fraudster for updating KYC of his cell phone and was asked to pay the charges of Rs 13. Through his credit card of HDFC, Deshpande paid Rs 13 and received an OTP. Later, suspicion arose in his mind and he immediately called the customer service centre of the HDFC and requested to block the credit card and issue a new card so that the fraudster could not cheat him. He was shocked to see after checking the account that the fraudster did three transactions from the card and withdrew Rs 7.61 lakh.

Deshpande said he informed the HDFC that he had not received any OTP and messages of all three transactions but the money had disappeared from his account. He said he did not activate the new card but the transactions were done. The police said the fraudster did all three transactions from Gurgaon. The officer said the case has been transferred to the cyber cell for investigation.