Lawyer cheated of Rs 50K in online fraud

Aurangabad, Oct 14: Unidentified cyber criminals cheated a lawyer of Rs 50,000 in an online fraud, recently. According to the Mukundwadi police. lawyer Ashish Devre (32, Jaibhavaninagar, N-2, Cidco) was to receive some important documents through courier. On October 7, he searched the contact number of FedEx Courier company on Google and called up the mobile number mentioned. Initially, the calls were not answered. After a while, Devre received a call from the same number and the caller claimed that he was speaking from the courier company. When Devre asked about documents, the caller said he would send docket number on the mobile and asked the lawyer to forward the number to the Beed Bypass branch of the agency. Devre did as was instructed. After this, an amount of Rs 10,000 was withdrawn from his Paytm account four times and from his Kotak Mahindra bank account once. Devre received messages about the withdrawal after which he approached the police.