Mysore/Mysuru: Cyber criminals in the guise of increasing the credit card limit of a man have cheated him of Rs. 1.70 lakh.

On Apr. 4 at about 1.43 pm, the man, a potter by profession, was travelling in a bus from Kirugaval to Mysuru when he received a message on his mobile phone from an unknown number and replied to the message.

Soon, the man got a video call from the unknown number and a woman on the other side of the phone, who identified herself as the Manager of the credit card division in a private bank, asked the man about his credit card limit to which he said it was Rs. 1.10 lakh. The woman then told the man that she would increase the limit to Rs. 2 lakh to which the man said that he did not want.

But the woman, who managed to convince the man, told him that she would send a website link and asked him to press OK. At about 1.45 pm, the man received ‘Axis Mycard login’ link on his mobile phone and clicked on it but nothing happened. Again at about 1.49 pm, he received another link & when he clicked on it, Rs. 1.70 lakh from his credit card was immediately deducted and he received a message about the money being debited from his credit card to Realme Mobile Telecom company.

The man then went to the bank and enquired about the message and was told that the said money from his credit card had been debited. The man later lodged a complaint at Alanahalli Police Station.