Even IIM-Indore Associate Falls Prey To Scamster, Loses ₹40K

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): An employee of IIM Indore was duped of Rs 40,000 by a conman, police said on Friday. She had received a call from the conman, who posed as her father’s friend and sent messages about transactions of Rs 72,500 to her mobile phone.

According to additional DCP (zone-1) Aalok Sharma, the employee of IIM Indore lodged a complaint that she had received a call from an unidentified person, who introduced himself as Lokesh, her father’s friend.

He later informed her that he had to repay an amount of Rs 12,500 to her father and her father had told him to transfer the amount to her (complainant’s) bank account. The conman gained her trust so she allowed him to transfer the money.

After a few minutes, she received three messages showing transactions of Rs 72,500. She called the scamster as to why he had sent such a huge amount. The conman replied that he had mistakenly sent Rs 72,500 to her and requested her to return the remaining amount.

The woman couldn’t understand anything so she transferred Rs 40,000 to the conman's mobile number but later found that no amount was credited to her bank account from the caller and Rs 40000 were transferred from her bank account to him.

She lodged a complaint with the cyber helpdesk of zone-1 for the same.  The police talked with the bank officers and froze the bank account which was used for receiving money and further investigations are on to identify the accused.