Navi Mumbai: A 42-year-old man from Ghansoli was defrauded of Rs 10.3 lakh by cyber fraudsters using the modus operandi of MGL bill update scam. The victim has registered an FIR of cheating under BNS and IT Act at Koparkhairane police station. The same fake MGL employee had defrauded a Kharghar woman of Rs 5 lakh in Feb.As per the FIR filed by the complainant Ashraf Gaeen, who owns a printing press, on March 26 around 6 pm, when he was at home, he had received a WhatsApp message from one Deepak Joshi, who claimed that he was an employee of MGL. The message mentioned that due to non-update of MGL bill payment, his residence PNG connection will be disconnected. Thereafter, he received similar WhatsApp message from another number and was sent an apk link. The complainant received multiple bank alert messages of a total of Rs 10.3 lakh debited from his savings bank account. Sensing that his mobile was hacked after downloading the apk file and the unauthorised transactions were carried out by gaining remote access to his mobile data, the complainant immediately deleted the file link and prevented further unauthorised transactions.A similar FIR was registered at Kharghar police station by a woman who was defrauded of Rs 4.9 lakh by Joshi posing as MGL employee. She too, received an apk link and in the same way, received bank alerts of the transactions. She immediately contacted her bank informing about the transactions and got her bank account freezed thus preventing further transactions from her account by the scammer.
