A Thane resident lost a little over Rs 1 lakh in an online fraud involving popular payment gateways, police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The complainant, a resident of Patlipada, wanted to sell his furniture and posted an ad on Facebook on December 21, an official said.<\/p>\n
On December 24, he received a call from one Rajendra Sharma who offered to buy the furniture and wanted to transfer the amount through payment gateways — Paytm and Google Pay, he said.<\/p>\n
However, instead of the money getting credited to his account, the complainant found that Rs 1.01 lakh were debited from him during three transactions on two payment gateways, the official said.<\/p>\n
The complainant realised that he had been cheated when the accused assured that he would return the money and asked him for another account number, he added.<\/p>\n
An offense has been registered against the unidentified accused under section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act and further investigations are underway, he said.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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