AHMEDABAD: A man from Mumbai was duped by a person who identified himself as the man’s boss and took Rs 50,000 from him through UPI transfer when the complainant was on road trip to Rajasthan and had halted in the Bopal area of Ahmedabad for a while on Tuesday.
Tushar Sharma, a resident of Meera Road in Thane who works as user experience designer, in his FIR with Bopal police said that he along with his parents were on a road trip to Rajasthan from Mumbai.
As he was tired, he decided to halt near Nirma University on SG Road after which he went to South Bopal for some work.
At this time, he received an email, purportedly from his boss, demanding Rs 24,700 to make a payment to a vendor. Sharma paid the money immediately through a UPI app to that person.
After a while, he got another email demanding Rs 1.24 lakh but as he said he did not have that much money, the person told him to pay whatever he could. He then paid Rs 25,300 to that person in the same manner.
When he again checked the email later, he found something fishy and contacted his boss, who told him that she did not send any email demanding money. The man took screenshots of the transactions and filed a complaint.
Bopal police filed a complaint of breach of trust, cheating and producing fake documents as genuine along with charges under the Information Technology Act.
