Chandigarh: Man picks hotel’s phone number from internet, duped of ₹28,000

A man searching the internet for a hotel’s phone number to book a room ended up losing ₹28,000 to a fraudster.

The victim, Jaswinder Singh Bedi, told the police that he wanted to book a room at Hotel Shivalikview, Sector 17, and looked for its contact number online.

On calling the phone number, he was asked to share the OTP sent to his mobile phone for confirming the booking.

But when he shared the OTP, ₹28,000 were deducted from his bank account through two transactions, following which he approached the police.