A senior citizen who tried booking an air ticket online ended up losing Rs 7 lakh to fraudsters on December 30.
Kumar (name changed) has said in his police complaint that he was trying to book a flight ticket to Thiruvananthapuram on January 18 using a mobile application. Though he had finished making the payment, he received a text message saying the fund transfer has not gone through. He later realised that Rs 7 lakh had been siphoned from his account.
When Kumar called the ticket booking firm’s customer care number, a man introducing himself as Deepak Kumar Sharma told him that he was unable to return the amount due to technical issues and asked Kumar to provide details of a different bank account.
