Mumbai: A BEST employee was duped of Rs 4.16 lakh by a cyberfraudster after he downloaded a malicious apk file presuming it to be a traffic e-challan. Dindoshi Police have registered an FIR and are probing further.The 56-year-old complainant resides in Goregaon East with his wife and grown children. He works as an electrician with the BEST.On Jan 10, he was home when he received a text between 6.30 pm and 7 pm. The text, sent from an unknown number, had the words ‘RTO e-challan’ written on an attachment. When the complainant clicked the file, a new window opened. The complainant called his son and showed him the text. His son then downloaded the apk file from the text.Shortly afterwards, the complainant received a phone call. The caller said he was an RTO employee and that challans incurred against the complainant’s scooter remained unpaid. He further said that the scooter would be seized if the challan was not paid.At 9.15 pm, the complainant received one rupee into his digital wallet from one Abhijeet Mondal. Throughout the night, he received OTPs from ecommerce platforms but was asleep and did not see them.On Jan 11, the complainant paid Rs 1000 online, presuming he was paying off the challan. Later that day, he noticed that his user name in his internet banking account had been changed and the transaction limit modified. A sum of Rs 4.16 lakh was transferred out of his account and the banking application was locked on his phone. He then contacted 1930 cyber crime helpline and subsequently lodged a police complaint.
