Two Hyderabad men duped of over ₹1.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters

Hyderabad: Two men were duped of over ₹1.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters in Hyderabad.

While one man was duped on the pretext of Know Your Customer (KYC) documents updation on an e-commerce payment system, another man was fleeced while buying a car on a portal.

“On 13th April, we received two complaints from two different persons. One person Kashinath stated in his complaint that he received a call from an unknown person claiming to update his Paytm KYC and asked him to tell OTPs that Kashinath received on his mobile number. He then told him the OTP, later the fraudster withdrew ₹1.03 lakh from his bank account,” said KVM Prasad, Additional DCP- Cyber Crimes.