If you are shopping or selling any item on OLX, then be careful to avoid cyber thugs. In the capital Jaipur, Rajasthan a case of cheating and grabbing Rs 2.24 lakh online from a woman on the pretext of buying goods on OLX has come to light. In this regard, the victim of the fraud has filed a case in Banipark police station in Jaipur Rajasthan Online Fraud on OLX after Seeing the Advertisement on Thursday. According to the police, the incident happened with Mugdha Khemka, a resident of Gujarat, who lives in an apartment in Banipark.
In the report filed, Mugdha Khemka told that she had advertised on OLX to sell a household item. On November 14, at 8 am, a call was received on her husband's mobile number. The caller gave his name Akash Kumar. He offered to buy the goods on OLX. Akash, in conversation with Mugdha, decided to buy goods for 70 thousand rupees. Akash decided to give 30 thousand rupees in advance online and 40 thousand rupees in cash at the time of delivery of the goods.
Vicious thug Akash told Mugdha Khemka that he is making an advance online payment of 30 thousand rupees to him. For this, the thug sent a QR code of Rs 5 to Mugdha on her mobile phone. He said that money is being transferred to you from the merchant bank. So you scan it. These rupees will be credited twice. The thugs transferred five-ten rupees to Mugdha's account through online transactions twice. In this way Akash took Mugdha into confidence and then sent a QR code of 30 thousand rupees to Mugdha.
According to the police, while scanning the code, Rs 30,000 was transferred online from Mugdha Devi's bank account to another account. When the money did not come back into the account, the victim spoke to Akash. Then he said that for large transactions, the code has to be scanned twice. The money was not returned even after doing so for the second time. In this way, on the pretext of refunding the amount, Akash grabbed Rs 50,000 from Mugdha's account, Rs 76 thousand from her husband's account, and Rs 98,000 from the account of a female member of the family by doing online transactions, and Akash switched off the mobile. took. Then Mugdha and her husband reached the Banipark police station, in Jaipur Rajasthan Online Fraud on OLX after Seeing the Advertisement Reporting the incident to the police, and registering the case.
