Last Update: December 08, 2022, 12:18 PM IST
An FIR was lodged at the Santacruz police station on Wednesday.
The fraudster transferred two lakh rupees in three transactions in five minutes.
It was a journey that should have taken a break from the monotony of the day-to-day. But for a Mumbai family, it turned bitter before it even started. A Mumbai family planning to visit Kerala lost Rs 2 lakh from their bank account as they tried to book a cab online. The incident is of 24 November.
The Indian Express reported that the complainant, 64, and his family had planned a holiday in Kerala from November 25 to December 1. It quoted the complainant as saying: “After booking airline tickets and a luxury hotel, I tried to book a cab online from Mumbai to pick me up from the Kochi airport with a number received from the internet.
An FIR was lodged at the Santacruz police station on Wednesday.
According to the report, the man gave his credit card information to the fraudster to make the payment. He was told that a technical problem caused the payment to fail. After this he gave his wife’s credit card information. The fraudster transferred two lakh rupees in three transactions in five minutes.
The impostor, posing as the real one, asked her for details about her travel.
After this he asked to give 100 rupees in advance.
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