Luring a private firm employee under the pretext of refunding alleged excess payment made by her during an online purchase, two conmen posing executives of an e-commerce platform swindled the victim of ₹1 lakh on Sunday.
The victim, Prashanthi S., a resident of Mahadevapura, filed a complaint with the Whitefield Cyber Crime Police seeking help to recover her money.
According to the complaint, she had made an online purchase of clothes on an e-commerce platform and paid the amount online. A few minutes later, she received a call from two unknown numbers identifying themselves as Dayashankar Mishra and Karan Gangsan, executives of the platform. They claimed that she had made an excess payment for the goods she had ordered and assured to return the money.
The duo after getting her bank account details transferred ₹2,465. Later they claimed that they had indeed by mistake refunded excess money and asked her to pay back ₹611, and said unless the money was refunded the goods would not be delivered.
Trusting them, Ms. Prashanthi transferred the money, but each time the accused said they had not received the money due to some error. In the process, Ms. Prashathi had transferred a total of ₹1 lakh to different UPI IDs shared by the accused. When she realised the same and questioned the accused, they cut the call and went incommunicado.
The police are now trying to track down the accused based on the mobile numbers they used to dupe the victim. In her complaint, the victim said that the accused were linked to the e-commerce portal as they knew about her recent purchase and all the transaction details.
Published – May 25, 2025 11:30 pm IST
