Chandigarh doctor duped of Rs 1 lakh by fraudster posing as CRPF Jawan

Chandigarh: In another case of cyber fraud, a 36-year-old doctor has been duped of Rs 1 lakh by an online fraudster who posed as a CRPF soldier. 

The doctor has been identified as Dr Gaurav Sharma, a resident of Sector 25 and he has a clinic in the same area.

The incident took place on July 7 when the doctor received a WhatsApp call on his mobile phone from the fraudster, who identified himself as Satish Kumar, an Army soldier posted at CRPF in the city. He asked about the doctor's availability as he will send Army soldiers to get treatment at his clinic. In order to come across as a legit Army person, the fraudster video called the doctor along with another man dressed in an Army uniform. The doctor was promised online advance payments by the fraudster.

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The doctor at first refused to get advance payments and stated that he will take the payments after providing treatments to the Jawans. Later, got convinced by the fraudster as he insisted. The fraudster later took an amount of Rs 1 lakh from the doctor's bank through Paytm in three instalments, reports HT.

Upon getting no reply and explanation from Kumar, the doctor went to the Cyber Crime police station and filed a complaint against Kumar. The police later registered the case under Sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. An investigation is underway to nab the accused.

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Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported a similar case where a doctor couple from Nagpur in Maharashtra has been duped of Rs 2 lakh by a cyber fraudster who posed as an Army officer and made one of the victims, an ophthalmologist, click a link sent to her mobile phone under the pretext of organising an eye check-up camp for jawans, police said.

The accused introduced himself as an Army officer over the phone to the ophthalmologist and said that he wanted to organise an eye check-up camp for 400 jawans, a Bajaj Nagar police station official said.