Shocking phone lottery fraud costs Mumbai man ₹2.10 lakh; how it was done
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A fraudster posing as a senior employee of an online store conned a Mumbai man of ₹2.10 lakh in a lottery fraud.
An offence has been registered against an unidentified person after a man from suburban Borivali here was allegedly duped of ₹2.10 lakh in a lottery scam, police said on Sunday. Based on a complaint, the MHB police recently registered a first information report (FIR), an official said. The complainant had purchased an appliance from an online store in 2019. Two years later, he received a letter from West Bengal, which was allegedly from the store stating that he had been chosen for a lucky draw, he said. The victim received a scratch card, which revealed that he had won a car worth ₹10.4 lakh as the first prize and he received a call from a man posing as a se...