Power bills: Retired teacher cheated of Rs 26.46 lakh

A retired teacher lost Rs 2.46 lakh for believing a fake online message over electricity supply, said cyber crime police on Thursday.

According to the police, the retired teacher wanted her brother to remit an amount online for payment of the power tariff and the amount was sent to the Electricity Department online. For this, he received a receipt.

After a couple of days, the teacher got a message saying she was defaulting on payment of the electricity bills. The message asked her to download an application in mobile phone to fill up the application for remitting the charges. Failing which, the message mentioned electricity connection would be snapped automatically.