Chandigarh, September 21

Two more city residents have lost their money to fraudsters posing as employees of the UT Electricity Department. Such incidents had been reported in the city earlier also.

Sarabjit Singh of Sector 38 (West) reported that he had received a WhatsApp message, which read his power connection would be snapped by evening since the last month’s bill payment was not updated in the record. A mobile number was mentioned in the message for assistance.

The complainant called on that number. The person on the other side told him that the last month’s bill was not updated and made the complainant download the “Quick Support” app. The suspect made the complainant transfer Rs 10, which, he claimed, will be adjusted to the next month’s bill. Later, the complainant found that Rs 81,590 was transferred from his bank account.

Another city resident, P Siddambary of Sector 37, was also duped of Rs 85,000 in a fraud similar to the earlier one.