AHMEDABAD: An income tax officer who lives in Gota on Tuesday filed a complaint with Sola police stating that cybercrooks cheated him of Rs 1.15 lakh using the ruse of paying an electricity bill.
Narayanan Nambiar, 57, a resident of ICB City, in his FIR said that he works at the Income Tax office on Ashram Road and also serves as treasurer of the Ahmedabad Kerala Samajam.
On June 17, Nambiar received a message on his phone saying his electricity bill was due and if he did not pay it, his connection would be cut by 9.30pm.
Nambiar said he thought the message was for the electricity bill of the Ahmedabad Kerala Samajam. He then called the secretary of the organization, C V Narayanan, and asked about the bill. Narayanan told him Rs 11,320 was due.
Nambiar paid the bill through a UPI payment and sent a message to the sender of the message saying the bill had been paid.
After a while, a man called Nambiar and told him that his payment had not been updated and asked him to pay Rs 10. Nambiar told him to give him directions on making the payment. Which he complied with.
While Nambiar was still talking to the man, he found that his online banking service opened automatically, and transactions were being done which was not in his control.
Nambiar said Rs 1.15 lakh were debited from his bank account in three transactions.
He approached Vastrapur police and filed a complaint of cheating along with the charges of the Information Technology Act.
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