AHMEDABAD: A woman from Gota, while trying to buy a Rs 900 salwar suit from an online shopping portal, was trapped by cyber crooks and ended up losing Rs 1 lakh.
Bhavna Dave, 35, a resident of Veer Savarkar Heights in Gota, said she likes online shopping and has downloaded many online shopping apps.
Dave said that on June 20 she downloaded a certain app to buy a salwar suit and paid Rs 900 for it. “On June 22, I got a call from a woman named Pooja from the app, who told me I would get delivery of my parcel around 28 days later. I then told her to cancel the order but she told that if I paid a nominal amount, I would get the delivery quickly,” she said.
The woman sent her a form on WhatsApp and told her to fill it and sent it back. She filled the form which sought her UPI ID and PIN. After a few seconds, Rs 5 was debited from her account. Later, Rs 99,996 was debited in eight transactions. She approached cybercrime police and filed a complaint for cheating along with offences under the IT Act against an unknown person.
