In yet another case of online booking cheating, the diligence of a security guard saved him from being cheated of thousands of rupees, after he ordered online an expensive mobile phone with an e-commerce company.

Jayakumar, a security guard at RMP quarters in Yelwal, who stayed along with his family at the quarters, booked a mobile phone  costing Rs. 18,500 with an e-commerce company on Feb.28. Later, he left to another town on work on Mar.4 while informing his wife to receive the parcel only after opening it as the package was to be delivered on that date.

As expected, a delivery boy knocked on the doors of Jayakumar’s residence and asked his wife to receive the package after paying Rs. 18,500.

But Jayakumar’s wife, as advised by her husband, insisted on opening the package which the delivery boy refused initially. Later, the delivery boy agreed, when Jayakumar’s wife partially opened the parcel only to find a glittering black stone and nothing else. Soon, the delivery boy fled from the spot saying that he did not knew anything about the content and his only job was to deliver the parcels given to him to the customers.

Jayakumar who returned home later in the evening, lodged a complaint with the Yelwal Police.

It may be mentioned here that in recent similar incidents, a public sector employee from Visakhapatnam, who had booked a mobile phone online had received a package that contained stones and thermocol pieces while an electrical engineer from Telangana who has also ordered  online a mobile phone using his credit card, received a package containing mangoes.