PUNE: A cybercrook posing as a customer care executive of a public sector bank allegedly duped an engineer of Rs 1.67 lakh under the pretext of increasing the limit of the latter’s credit card in February this year.
The Moshi-based 33-year-old engineer, who works with a private company, filed a first information report (FIR) with the Bhosari MIDC police on Wednesday.
Inspector Pradip Patil of the Bhosari MIDC police told TOI that the complainant had obtained a credit card of a public sector bank with the credit limit of Rs 1 lakh in February. “After the card was delivered to him, the complainant received a call from a man, who introduced himself as the customer care executive from the bank. He told the complainant that the bank would like to increase the credit limit to 3.5 lakh,” Patil said.
Patil said after the complainant agreed to increase the credit limit, the man sent a One Time Password (OTP) on his cellphone. “After that the complainant received messages stating that purchases worth Rs 1.67 lakh had been made by using his credit card through three transactions,” Patil said.
He said the engineer claimed that he did not share the OTP with the person. Despite that his credit card was misused. “We are obtaining the details of the transactions which were made by using the complainant’s credit card,” Patil said.
