E-wallet account

CEN police station

Weeks before his marriage, a caller who identified himself as Jiju (brother-in-law) started speaking to the techie groom and asked him how the preparations were going on. After speaking for a while, the man asked him for favour and on the pretext of sending him the money, he siphoned off Rs. 40,000 from his. The crook again tried calling him after a couple of days and this time, told him that he was his mama and asked for another favour. The techie immediately cross checked with his relatives and found out that he was a conman.Abhishek Ranjan, 32, a resident of Bellandur has filed a complaint with the Whitefield. Abhishek said that he got married last week and a few weeks before that he had received a call from an unknown number who claimed to be his brother-in-law. He said, “The man told me that he was my Jiju and asked me how I was doing. He was very friendly and asked me how the preparations were going on. I did not doubt him at that point and spoke to him for a while. He asked me for a favour and told me that he was trying to send some money to his friend through E-wallet but it was not processing.He told me that he would send that money to me and asked me to send it to his friend. First he sent one rupee which was credited to my account and the second time, I did not realise that it was a request for sending money and I ended up entering my PIN after which the money got debited from my account.” “I immediately called him back and asked him to send my money back and he agreed to it. He was still posing as my Jiju and he kept sending me requests to debit the money,” he said.He immediately filed a complaint with the CEN police station. He said, “Last week, I got married in Dehradun and returned to the city when he called me from a different number and told me that he was my mama. This time I was little careful and I immediately called my mama to cross check when I got to know that it was the same man trying to fool me again with another name.”