Chandigarh school teacher duped of ₹1 lakh in credit card fraud

A school teacher lost ₹1 lakh to fraudulent online transactions on her credit card, the police said on Saturday.

In her complaint, Tamanna Thakur, 40, of Sector 52, told the police that on September 24, at about 11.41am, she had received a message on her mobile phone intimating her that she had spent ₹1,00,000 through her credit card on online portal Flipkart.

She called the credit card customer care asking them to stop the payment, but it was too late.

A case under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 419 (cheating by impersonation) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code was registered.