Team Herald
VASCO: Posing as representativess of various companies, fraudsters on Monday duped three Vasco residents of over Rs 2.30 lakh.
In the first case, the fraudster posing as a customer care executive of an online shopping site duped Usha Nandini of Mangor of Rs 2 lakh. After approaching the complainant on he on the pretext of selling a bicycle online the accused fraudulently managed to get access to her bank account and transferred Rs 2 lakh on different occasions using computer resources.
In the second case, Shubash Priya Singh of Varunapuri-Vasco lost Rs 16,031. Singh in his complaint said that the accused impersonated a customer care executive of SBI Bank on the pretext of KYC updation fraudulently got access to his bank account and transferred the money using computer resources.
Yet in another case, Sandeep Kumar Yadav complained that a fraudster posing as a customer care executive of a courier service on the pretext of resolving a problem with the product ordered by the complainant, fraudulently got access to the bank account and transferred Rs 15,000 through his SBI bank account using computer resources.
The Vasco police have registered cases under sections 419 and 420 of IPC and sections 66D of the Information Technology Act.
Vasco PI Kapil Nayak has appealed to the people to be careful and not to fall prey to the people who visit houses posing as representatives of banks or companies.
