Bengaluru Man Orders Pizza loses Rs 95,000
Another case of digital fraud has been recorded where Rs 95,000 were deducted from a man’s account when he placed an order from the food delivery App Zomato. Watch the video for all the details.
A Bengaluru man ordered pizza and ended up losing ?95,000 in an online scam.!On 1st December, a resident of Koramangala, NV Sheik ordered himself a pizza using the food delivery app Zomato at 1:30 pm in the afternoon. But unfortunately, even after waiting for 1 whole hour his pizza wasn’t delivered. So he looked up for the customer care service number of the app. When he called the number, he was told that the restaurant wasn’t accepting orders but his money would be refunded. So NV Sheik was told that he would receive a message on his phone after the call. Once he clicked the link in the message his refund request would be processed.
But when he received the message and clicked on the link, ?45,000 was deducted from one of his bank accounts. He realised that the customer care person was a fraud and by clicking on the link the Fraudsters was able to access his bank account details. NV Sheik then tried to transfer the remaining amount to another account but another Rs 50,000 had been deducted. He even filed a complaint and investigations are currently underway. Nv Sheikh had been saving this amount for his mother’s cancer treatment, so he was very sad to lose it.
Zomato the replied and cleared the confusion. They said that they don’t have a customer care number. They said Zomato constantly keeps reminding customers through different channels that they don’t have a customer care number. If customers have any problems, Chat and emails are the way with which they can contact Zomato.Zomato has said that they are doing everything to make sure Customers are safe. They have told everyone to be careful and not share their bank details with anyone.
