A 50-year-old advocate, Dhaval Nanavati, a resident of Galaxy Apartments in Bodakdev lodged a complaint at the cyber police station on Thursday, alleging that cyber cheat siphoned off a total of Rs 10,95,261 from his PayTM and bank accounts.
According to the FIR, Nanavati whose office is at Elite Business Park near Kargil Petrol Pump, stated that his firm has an account in the Bodakdev branch of a private bank.
He stated that on May 18, at 11.24am he received a text message on his mobile phone stating: “Dear customer please complete your PYT and MKCY documents, which expires today. Your service will be blocked within 24 hours. Call us at 8392098802, thank you”.
Nanavati said that he did not call the number despite seeing the text message. “At 12.39am he got a call from the same number anf one Deepak Sharma was on the other end. He told him that his PayTM KYC was pending and he had called for online verification.
The FIR states that Sharma told him to go to the PayTM passbook and fill in credit card details, which he did. Afer this, the first transaction of Rs 9,499 was done from his credit card.
Later, without Nanavati’s knowledge, the cheats obtained his bank details and siphoned off money from there as well. On May 19, they contacted Nanavati on the pretext of giving him a refund, kept cheating him.
Nanavati stated that he learned of these transactions on looking at his bank account records. The cheats had siphoned of Rs 84,490 from his credit card and Rs 10,10,771 from his bank account.
“We are tracking the mobile number and bank account into which the money was transferred,” said deputy commissioner of police Rajdeepsinh Jhala.
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