AHMEDABAD: Chandkheda police on Monday registered two cases of cheating and breach of trust. The first was against an unidentified person who made an unlawful online transaction of Rs 78,000. The second victim was told to download the ‘Anydesk’ app and Rs 70,000 was taken from her daughter’s account.
In the first complaint, Ashwin Parmar, a resident of Chandkheda, stated that he received a credit card from a private bank and to activate the credit card, he searched for the customer care number of the bank. On December 28 last year, he called a customer care number he found on the internet and the person identified himself as a representative of the bank. That person told him he was sending a link to his mobile and told him to fill in the details using that. He later found that Rs 74,924 had been taken from his account in an online transaction. The complaint was registered at Chandkheda police station on Monday.
In another complaint, Poonam Sachdev, 66, a resident of Motera, stated that on October 3, she was trying to transfer Rs 1 lakh from her younger daughter’s account to that of her elder daughter using net-banking. As the money was not transferred, she searched the internet for the bank’s customer care number. On calling the number she found on the internet, she was assured that the money would be transferred and was told to download the Anydesk application on her mobile. Later, she was told to fill in her debit card details. She soon received a message saying that Rs 69,766 had been transferred from her younger daughter’s account.
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