Pune: A 63-year-old woman from Nigdi Pradhikaran lost Rs 92,000 in an online insurance fraud on May 6 this year. The woman lodged a complaint with the Nigdi police on Tuesday.An officer from the Nigdi police told TOI that, on May 6, she received a call from an unknown cellphone number. The caller introduced himself as an executive of a private insurance company. The woman did not suspect anything as the caller had shared all the details of the policy. She then sent Rs 92,000 through her UPI to the caller. “When she did not get any receipt, she tried to contact the person, but he was not responding. She then contacted the company’s officer and realised that she was duped,” he said. “He told the woman that her insurance policy was lapsed because of non-payment of the premium. He also told her that the policy would be continued only after she made the payment immediately,” the officer said. He said that The officer said that the investigations so far revealed that the woman’s money was transferred to a private bank’s account in Gonda in Uttar Pradesh. “We have sought the details of the account from the bank,” the officer said.
