₹5 payment leads to ₹1.08 lakh fraud:Indore trader called fake customer care number found on Google to cancel OTT

A case of online fraud has been reported in Indore where a drug trader and his wife were cheated of ₹1.08 lakh on the pretext of cancelling an OTT subscription. The victim had called a fake customer care number found through Google. Police said the accused first convinced the complainant to transfer ₹5 as part of a verification process. Soon after, the mobile screen froze and money started getting deducted from both bank accounts in multiple transactions. The Juni Indore police have registered an FIR and started an investigation. Number Found on Google Became the Reason for Fraud According to the complaint filed in cyber cell, Nirmal Navlani, a resident of Gopal Colony and a pharmaceutical businessman, had subscribed to multiple OTT platforms. On June 4, while at his office in the drug market, he searched Google for a number to cancel his Jio Hotstar subscription. He contacted a number that appeared in the search results, where the caller posed as a customer support executive and began the cancellation process. Phone froze after ₹5 transfer The accused instructed him to transfer ₹5 to complete the process. After the payment was made via Google Pay, the mobile screen suddenly froze. When the phone was restarted, continuous transaction alerts started appearing. ₹1.08 lakh withdrawn from husband and wife accounts First, ₹8,000 and then ₹50,000 were withdrawn from his Bank of Baroda account. Later, ₹20,000 and ₹30,000 were debited from his wife Sharda’s account. In total, ₹1.08 lakh was fraudulently siphoned off. Accounts frozen, FIR registered Realising he had been cheated, the victim immediately contacted the bank and got both accounts frozen. He then filed a complaint on the cyber helpline and later approached Juni Indore police, where an FIR was registered. Police are now investigating the transaction details and bank accounts linked to the accused.