Lucknow, 05 July: Lalit Sharma and Nidhi Sharma, owners of a famous tea shop at old office of Lucknow Development Authority in Lucknow, were cyber-cheated.
According to Nidhi Sharma, When she came to know about this some time after the cyber-cheating, she lodged an online complaint.
She told that on June 30, the tea shop manager Rajkumar Yadav received a call from an unknown number and was called to the command center to take orders for a program in the cantonment area. When Rajkumar reached there, he was told that in the fifteen-day training program, tea-samosa has to be served to fifty people in the morning and evening for breakfast.
Believing the fraudster’s words to be true, the manager gave Nidhi Sharma’s mobile number to take the advance money. Online payment was to be made on this number, but the person who had planned to commit cyber-cheating sent a bar code and asked to scan it. After a few minutes, on scanning, twenty-eight thousand rupees were deducted from Nidhi’s account.
In the meantime, when the matter was discussed with the local public representatives, they talked to Lalit Sharma and asked him to immediately get it investigated through the police and file a written report in the cyber police station. After which the news of a big incident of cyber crime spread in the city. People have advised the tea shop owner Lalit to take strict action.
