<p>An unemployed man was cheated of Rs 1.82 lakh when he tried paying Rs 100 as registration fee on a fake jobs portal. </p>.<p>On December 12, around 5 pm, Santhosh H Acharya, 31, received a phone call from a woman who introduced herself as Priyanka Malhotra, an executive from a jobs website. She offered him a job matching his qualification and asked if he would like to register on their website. </p>.<p>Acharya, who lives in Kadugodi, decided to register as he had been employed for the past few months. The caller then asked him to pay Rs 100 as a registration fee. When Acharya tried payment, the transaction failed. The caller then asked him to refresh the page. Within no time, Rs 32,000, Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh were debited from his bank account in three tranches. </p>.<p>It took Acharya a while to figure out that the online payment system had been manipulated to facilitate the cheating. He then filed a complaint with Kadugodi police. Investigators have opened a case of cheating under IPC section 420 and named Priya Malhotra as a suspect. Further investigations are underway. </p>
<p>An unemployed man was cheated of Rs 1.82 lakh when he tried paying Rs 100 as registration fee on a fake jobs portal. </p>.<p>On December 12, around 5 pm, Santhosh H Acharya, 31, received a phone call from a woman who introduced herself as Priyanka Malhotra, an executive from a jobs website. She offered him a job matching his qualification and asked if he would like to register on their website. </p>.<p>Acharya, who lives in Kadugodi, decided to register as he had been employed for the past few months. The caller then asked him to pay Rs 100 as a registration fee. When Acharya tried payment, the transaction failed. The caller then asked him to refresh the page. Within no time, Rs 32,000, Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh were debited from his bank account in three tranches. </p>.<p>It took Acharya a while to figure out that the online payment system had been manipulated to facilitate the cheating. He then filed a complaint with Kadugodi police. Investigators have opened a case of cheating under IPC section 420 and named Priya Malhotra as a suspect. Further investigations are underway. </p>