MUMBAI: Malabar police on Friday arrested two con men from Surat, for impersonating as bankers and duping two homemakers of Rs 89,000 and Rs 1. 8 lakh, respectively in south Mumbai earlier this month.
Police said both accused Yogeshkumar Koshiya (28), and Ravi Navinbhai Unakat (30), have been booked separately and charged under IPC sections of cheating and Information Technology act.
In the first case where the money was siphoned to Koshiya’s account, a middle aged woman told the police that on March 31 she received a call from an unknown person impersonating as a bank representative. He told her that he needs to update her KYC, and asked her to click on a link and upload all her details while he was on line.
Upon filling in the details, she received an OTP, and shared it with the caller, after which she received text messages saying, Rs 1. 77 lakh have been debited from her account. Police tracked the caller’s number registered under a woman’s name to Jamtara in Bihar.
Police said that in the second case accused Unakat was the beneficiary in receiving money from a homemaker. She told them that she received a text message that Rs 89,000 has been debited from her account through netbanking, despite not using it. In this case police suspected that someone must have stolen or hacked into her account .
Probe is on, and cops believe that these cases could lead them to kingpin of syndicate.
