A 63-year-old woman was allegedly duped of Rs 2.38 lakh by a cyber fraudster who sent her a text message asking her to pay her electricity bill and tricked her into revealing her bank details using a remote access application.
In the first information report (FIR) registered at the Park Site police station on May 17, the complainant told the police that she lives alone in Powai and is a lawyer by profession. On May 16, she said, she was travelling to Bandra for work when she received a text message asking her to pay her pending electricity bill. The woman said she later got a call from a person who posed as an employee of a private company supplying electricity.
