Mumbai Man duped out of ₹7 Lakh after responding to Fake Power bill message

Mumbai Man duped out of ₹7 Lakh after responding to Fake Power bill message

Little did a 24-year-old man know that responding to a message informing about an unpaid electricity bill would cost his family over Rs 7 lakh. The victim’s mother had received a text message on her phone, informing about the unpaid electricity bill. She asked the victim to check the message, after which he called the ‘electricity officer,’ whose number was mentioned in the message. The ‘electricity officer’ induced the victim to download a remote access app on his phone and convinced him to make a transaction of Rs 140. Within…

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