Gorakhpur (UP), Nov 12 (PTI) A doctor here was duped of Rs 2.5 lakh to a cyber fraudster who posed as a patient seeking an online consultation, police said.

The incident took place on September 8 when Dr Jitendra Kumar Srivastava, a resident of Basharatpur East in Shahpur, received a call from a person claiming to need medical advice.

Following the consultation, the caller requested a QR code for payment. Trusting the person, Dr Srivastava shared the code via WhatsApp. Show Full Article

Shortly after, he received three debit alerts from his Punjab National Bank account amounting to Rs 2,48,687.

He later lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime police station, and an FIR was registered at Shahpur police station against unidentified persons.

The fraudsters, identified as Prameel Kumar and

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