Online Fraud: Engineer Duped of Rs 80k in Capital

Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): One more person fell prey to online liquor delivery fraud in Bhubaneswar and this time, the victim is an IT Engineer. The man, a resident of Chandrasekharpur, was cheated of around Rs 80,000 after ordering liquor online through social media.

Reportedly, the victim, who requested for anonymity, had come across an advertisement on Facebook that claimed to receive online orders for home delivery of liquor from a shop named ‘Kadambari’.  When he contacted on the number shared in the post, the receiver shared a PhonePe number and asked him to make the payment.

“When i did not receive the order, I called on that number again. He told me about some registration process and later sent a barcode asking me to scan it. When I scanned the code four times on PhonePe, a sum of Rs 79,181 was deducted from my SBI and Standard Chartered bank accounts,” alleged the Engineer. He further said, “The name of the PhonePe number was Narendra Singh. But after few followups, I received a refund of Rs 3,000 from one Prathamesh Mestry.” The victim later went to Chandrasekharpur police station to lodge an FIR.

Further details awaited.