Mumbai: Three fall prey to fake courier cyber-fraud; lose Rs 3.02 lakh

Three people in Mumbai were cheated by cyber-fraudsters and lost a total of Rs 3.02 lakh from their bank accounts.

Recently, cyber-fraudsters who faked as a courier service executive extracted around Rs 3.02 lakh from the bank accounts of three people in Mumbai. The fraudsters got the money transferred to their account on the pretext of registration and collecting advance payment.

All three victims were searching for courier services online when they ended up finding the numbers of the cyber-fraudsters who uploaded their own numbers on internet search engines as that of popular courier services.