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A seemingly harmless phone call offering a “gift" has turned into a nightmare for several unsuspecting citizens. In two recent incidents, a Delhi-based doctor and a Pune woman lost lakhs after following a caller’s instructions to dial a certain code, unwittingly enabling a new kind of cyber fraud now being dubbed the call forwarding scam.

According to officials, the Delhi doctor received a call from an unknown number claiming to be from a pharmaceutical company. The caller said a complimentary gift was to be sent to him but required his approval first. When the doctor agreed, he was asked to dial a specific code on his phone. Within moments of doing so, several transactions were made from his account.

A similar incident occurred in Pune, where a 45-year-old woman

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