MP Doctor cheated of Rs 93000 by man posing as Army official

Indore: In a case of cyber fraud, a 70-year-old doctor in Indore in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly duped of Rs 93000 by a man posing as a military havildar, a police official said.

Dr. Rajkumar Mathur was called by a man who identified himself as an Army havildar posted in Jammu and Kashmir, said Tilaknagar police station in-charge, Manju Yadav.

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"The accused said his younger brother required surgery for kidney stones for which he needed Rs 60,000. Amid the conversation on the online transfer of this amount, the accused managed to siphon off Rs 93,871 from the doctor's account," Yadav said.

The official added that a case was registered under the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act provisions, and a probe was underway.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a retired Indian Air Force (IAF) doctor from Bhubaneswar had lost Rs 1.46 lakh after cyber fraudsters cheated him on the pretext of electricity bill payment.

The doctor, a resident of the Chandrasekharpur area in Bhubaneswar, received a message on his mobile phone stating that his electricity bill was pending with a warning that the electrical connection would be permanently cut if the bill was not paid on time.

The person asked the doctor to make the payment online, which the latter declined. However, the person then gave him discount offers and convinced the doctor to pay Re 1 through the link he shared online. The doctor clicked on the link and submitted his details. He then shared an OTP he received on his phone with the person. However, an amount of Rs 1.46 lakh had been debited from the doctor's account in two installments as soon as he shared the OTP with the fraudster. After that, the doctor lodged a complaint.

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