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Key Highlights The woman claims someone claiming to be an employee of the bakery called her back Cubbon Park police has registered a complaint and are investigating the matter Similar cases of people being duped after sharing their OTPs or UPI pins have come to light from across the country

Bengaluru: Ordering a cake for her daughter's birthday ended up becoming a costly affair for a woman from Bengaluru who fell prey to a phishing scam. The 37-year-old woman is an employee with a city-based private firm and resident of Cottonpet Main Road. The matter came to light earlier this month after she approached the police and registered a case against unknown persons.

In her complaint, the woman claimed that she wanted to order a cake for her daughter who was turning 14. She decided to look online and found the contact details of Glen's Bakehouse on Lavelle Road. She called on the number listed online but no one answered her call. Minutes later, she received a call back from someone claiming to be an employee of the bakery.

He asked me for my debit card details and later a one-time password (OTP), the complainant told The New Indian Express. She alleged that an amount of ₹71,500 was deducted from her corresponding account withing seconds of her sharing the OTP with the person claiming to an employee of the bakery. I tried calling back repeatedly on the same number but it was switched off and I could not reach the person, added the woman.

In fact, she then rushed to Lavelle Road in the capital city of Karnataka but found no such outlet of Glen's Bakehouse. Realising that she had been duped, the woman approached Cubbon Park police station and filed a case.

Sharing your OTPs with anyone can prove to be a problematic affair. In two separate incidents reported from Pune earlier this year, people were duped of tens of thousands of rupees after they tried to order booze online and instead, ended up sharing their bank card details and OTPs with people claiming to be employees of fictitious wine shops.