Indore Man Loses Rs 62k To Online Fraud; Conman Poses As Bank Officer

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A man was duped of Rs 62,000 by a conman, who posed himself as an officer of a private sector bank, police said on Wednesday.

After he raised a complaint about the annual charge taken by the bank’s credit card department, he received a call from an unidentified person, who posed himself as an officer from the bank and he managed to dupe him on the pretext of helping him.

According to Additional DCP (crime) Rajesh Dandotiya, the complainant informed the crime branch officer that he had raised a complaint with the bank but no action was taken by the bank.

After he posted his complaint on the X handle of the bank, he received a message from a person, who posed himself as an officer of the bank. The scammer assured him to take action on his complaint. He later asked for his WhatsApp number and was told that all the charges would be returned to him soon.

The conman trapped him and informed the complainant that he was in the process of stopping the charges.

Soon after he shared the OTP with the scammer, Rs 62,530 was deducted from his bank account. The crime branch officials claimed that the bank account given by the conman was held and the process is underway to return the amount to the complainant as soon as possible.