Bengaluru Techie Orders Pizza on App, Ends up Losing ₹ 95K in Online Scam
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A city techie was left poorer by Rs 95,000 as he fell victim to online fraudsters after ordering a pizza, leaving a bad aftertaste in his mouth.
N.V. Sheikh of Bengaluru’s Koramangala used a food delivery app on his smartphone to order a pizza on December 1 afternoon, The News Minute reported.
After the meal was not delivered even an hour after the order was placed, he looked for the customer care service of the food mart. When he called up, he was reportedly told by the man on the other end that the order was not being accepted by eateries and that a refund would be made.
The man allegedly told Sheikh that he would receive a phone message, and his refund request would be processed once he clicked on a link provided therein.
Madiwala Police said that when Sheikh did as directed, he became a victim of phishing. The fraudsters accessed his bank account details, and left him poorer by Rs 95,000 within minutes.
Sheikh filed a complaint with the Madiwala Police who are now investigating the matter. The victim was said to be saving the money for his mother’s cancer treatment.
A spokesperson of the food delivery company said that it did not have a calling service for customer care but only chat and email.
“While we make all efforts to ensure customer safety and security, we urge our customers to be vigilant and not share personal or bank account details with anyone,” the spokesperson was quoted by the news report.
In November, another Bengaluru resident had lost around Rs 85,000 in a payment app scam.
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After making payment thru google pay on ola, I always rcv a call and I get chance to abuse fraudster. Such a nice offer without any tncs
“Techie” 
Hope such “techies” are not handling important tasks in critical sectors else Pakistan/China/others will be downloading all the data they want without firing a single shot.
Does anyone here know what exactly happens when any user clicks on such link?
I understand if it asks you to download an app from play store that accesses remotely, then that’s risk. Are there other ways clicking such links would cause data compromise?
May Be That Link Asked To Enter Details For Refund Which Made The Fraudster’s Task Easy To Scam Him
Or May Be Money Request Links
Can Be Anything…Just Try To Figure Out.
This is the reality of 75% of India’s so-called “techies”.
They don’t have an ounce of common sense or knowledge in their brains.
It’s a design flaw in the app. Stop blaming end users for everything.
On one hand i wonder how is he a techie when someone can fool him in such a simple trap, but on the other hand i feel sad that this money was for his mother’s cancer treatment.
The similar method being followed by many scammers now a days . They list their number as zamoato,uber,ola,swiggy etc, on some websites , when someone search" Zomato customer care number " the scammers numbers comes at top of search results on Google , then they trick the customer who asked for refund or payment .
Now I understand why I get this SMS daily-