Piplani police have booked three cases of cyber-crime in which students and job seeker were duped to the tune of over Rs 75000;  a 22-year-old girl was duped in the name of facilitating job, the father of a girl student was duped in the name of helping in online studies and a man was duped in the name of verification of credit card.

The frauds were committed in the past one year with the victims. Samreen Khan of Nizamuddin B-sector was duped by fraudster who contacted her and posed as a bank official and asked her to register to get job, lured by the offer victim deposited around Rs 18300 in five parts. Later she released the fraud and lodged complaint.

Victim has applied for job and updated her resume over different job facilitating websites and during which received call in the month of September 2020. She got assured that caller could get her job and made payments in parts and later the mobile phone used in the fraud was found switched off.

In another case Rs 35387 were fraudulently deducted from Rajkumar Gupta’s account after he downloaded link of team viewer app for helping in studying his daughter involved in online studies; he was cheated in the month of October last year.

The victim received call from fraudster who offered help and asked to download link and as soon as link was downloaded Rs 35387 were deducted.

Third case was reported by Ashraf Khan who was duped in the name of verification of credit card, he was duped to the tune of Rs 15150.

Khan applied for credit card and received a call regarding receiving card and later fraudster asked for OTP and as soon as OTP was provided money was deducted. Police have registered case in all the cases and started investigation.