Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, a Software Engineer, a Professor and a Government employee have lost a total of Rs. 22,06,800 to online fraudsters.

In the first case, 40-year-old Mallamma Ganigi, a Software Engineer and a resident of Roopa Nagar, received a message on her WhatsApp from Mob: 93626-10449 and was added to a Telegram App group. She was then asked to complete certain tasks to get more profit.

Initially, an amount of Rs. 160 was deposited to Mallamma’s bank account as profit and the fraudsters got a total of

Rs. 19,26,300 transferred from her bank account in phases, thus cheating her.

In the second case, 36-year-old Prof. P.S. Soujanya, a resident of Ramakrishnanagar, received a message on her WhatsApp from Mob: 95461-68851 asking her to complete tasks to get more money and the fraudsters got

Rs. 81,500 transferred from her thus cheating Soujanya.

In the third case, 51-year-old M.A. Alwar, a Government Officer and a resident of K.M. Puram, got a call from Mob: 91216-28613 and the caller, who identified himself as a representative of a Nationalised Bank, told Alwar that his customer ID was incorrect and he cannot utilise the Net Banking facility.

The fraudster then collected Alwar’s Debit Card details and also the One Time Password (OTP), which had come to Alwar’s mobile phone. The fraudster then transferred a sum of Rs. 1.99 lakh illegally from Alwar’s Bank account thus cheating him.

All the three cases have been registered at city’s CEN Police Station.