Summary:
Ludhiana, August 24Wife of a furnace company director has been duped of Rs 2.5 lakh by a cyber criminal. The con man hacked her mobile phone and withdrew the amount from her Paytm account in four transactions. The moment she gave details of her Paytm account to the caller, Rs 2.5 lakh was withdrawn by the criminal within a few minutes. She said the cyber criminal first withdrew of Rs 20,000, then carried out two transactions of Rs 40,000 each and finally withdrew Rs 1.5 lakh from her account. Sources said the police had received more than 250 complaints of cyber fraud and a majority of the cases were lying unsolved..