techie couple

travel agency

Trip Wisers

Bangalore

cyber crime police station

Here’s more on techies being fooled. Aliving at Haralur Road were duped by awhich promised to book tickets for their Christmas holidays in Thailand.Ranjita (name changed) and her husband planned to go to Thailand along with their child. When Ranjani started checking the fares on a popular travel portal, an agent of the company called her and took down her requirements. The same day, she received another call from an agent of a travel firm named ‘’ who claimed that they were empanelled with the popular website.Ranjita told the police that she was in touch with Neeraj Verma and Bhavna Kanwal who claimed to be agents of Trip Wisers. They gave her a Google Pay number and asked her to transfer the money; they promised her that the tickets would be dispatched to her in three days.Ranjita paid the money in two tranches -- first she transferred Rs 5,000 and then Rs 93,838. But for more than a week, she neither received the tickets nor a message from the travel agency. When she tried contacting Neeraj and Bhavana, their mobile phones were out of reach.Ranjita toldMirror: “The accused said they were part of the travel company which has a tie up with the online travel portal. So I believed them and asked them to book three tickets for Thailand for a 5-day trip. I followed the instructions given by them. I never met the accused directly as they said they were calling from Delhi. They gave me a Google Pay number and asked me to transfer the money. I sent a mail to the portal and informed them about the fraud. But they replied saying I should approach the police.”An FIR was registered at Bellandur police station under sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 420 (punishment for cheating) of the Indian Penal Code. The case will be transferred to