Pune: A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Keshavnagar in Mundhwa has lodged a complaint with the Shivajinagar police, alleging that a fraudster, posing as a police constable, repeatedly harassed him over credit card dues.
The complainant alleged that the suspect made multiple calls to him between Oct 13 and 19. He had forgotten to pay his credit card dues of Rs 1.6 lakh,” senior inspector Girish Dighavkar of the Shivajinagar police said.
“He told the complainant that the card-issuing bank registered a complaint against him and that he’d been assigned to recover the dues,” he added. These included video calls in which he was seen in a police uniform. “The complainant runs his own software company in Shivajinagar. Subsequently, the complainant got video calls from the suspect, who posed as a police constable.
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“We suspect the caller is a bank agent … our team is searching for the caller,” Dighavkar said. Download the TOI App.
He said the complainant first received calls demanding immediate payment of the dues. “The caller also warned him of dire consequences in case of non-payment,” Dighavkar added.