Mangaluru man losses Rs. 48K after dialing wrong “Flipkart Customer Care Agent”
Mangaluru: Local police have registered a case against an unidentified man for allegedly posing as a Flipkart Customer Care agent and duping a customer for nearly 50,000 rupees after the latter called Flipkart Customer Care to return his product.
According to the reports, the victim had ordered ‘Key Bunch’ on the shopping website Flipkart which arrived 12 days later than scheduled. The customer in a bid to return the product searched for the ‘Customer Care’ number of Flipkart and ended up finding the number of the fraudster.
The fraudster although did not return the call immediately but called back the customer and conversed in Hindi. The fraudster asked the victim to install the ‘AnyDesk App”. Abiding by the instructions, the victim installed the app. He later opened the Flipkart website and asked the victim to enter his debit card and CVV number.
Soon, the victim was duped of Rs. 48,354 from his account. The victim lodged a police complaint in this regard, and the police are investigating the matter.
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Ranchi: Temple guard bludgeoned to death during robbery attempt, 3 held
Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.
"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.
"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.
Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.
An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.
