PUNE: The Bharati Vidyapeeth police are investigating a 24-year-old medical practitioner’s complaint that fraudsters duped him of Rs2.76 lakh on December 3, 2021 by promising to sell him a used air conditioner and bed on an online trading platform. The police registered a formal FIR on Monday after their cyber counterparts completed a verification of the doctor’s complaint application.
“The preliminary verification has revealed that the fraudsters are based in Rajasthan and we are trying to get their exact location,” senior inspector Jagannath Kalaskar of the Bharati Vidyapeeth police told TOI.
The medical practitioner stays in a rented flat and is affiliated to a hospital in Katraj. He wanted to buy an air conditioner and a bed. While searching on a website, where old goods are traded by the people. He came across an advertisement showing household furniture on sale and contacted the number mentioned in the it, he added.
The man who received the call asked a few queries and the doctor agreed to all of them after which the call receiver sent a QR code to the victim on his UPI application and asked him to scan the QR code. A nominal amount of money was deducted as soon as the victim scanned the code, said the police.
