Elderly doctor gets a call to update his electricity bill, conned of nearly Rs 6 lakh

For Shiv Shankar Saha, a call to update his electricity bill seemed like a regular one from customer care. It was only after the call ended that the 67-year-old realised that a whopping sum of nearly Rs 6 lakh had been charged to his credit card.

On June 16, Saha, a doctor and a resident of Safdarjung Enclave, registered a complaint on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) alleging he received a call to update his BSES electricity bill. The caller asked him to pay a nominal amount of Rs 10 for updating the bill and Saha paid with his HSBC credit card.