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B'luru techie gets free phone, loses ₹2.8 crore

The New Indian Express Madurai

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January 20, 2025

AFTER the 'dubious parcel at Customs' scam and 'digital arrest' scare, cyber fraudsters have come up with a new trick to gobble up your money: give a free mobile phone, and use it to siphon off money from your bank account.

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Deputy Commissioner of Police (Whitefield) Shivakumar Gunare said this new type of crime was reported in Bengaluru where a techie lost ₹2.8 crore. A fraudster posing as a bank representative told the man the bank had appro

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